Trollope contrasts the careers of three young Oxford graduates, concentrating principally on the tragic confusion of the brilliant scholar George Bertram, torn between youthful idealism and love for the ambitious Caroline Waddington. Published in the same year as Darwin's Origin of the Species, The Bertrams is a deft social comedy partially inspired by the doctrine of the survival of the fittest and sparkling with Trollope's acute sense of history, psychological insight, and satire.
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Trollope contrasts the careers of three young Oxford graduates, concentrating principally on the tragic confusion of the brilliant scholar George Bertram, torn between youthful idealism and love for the ambitious Caroline Waddington. Published in the same year as Darwin's Origin of the Species, The Bertrams is a deft social comedy partially inspired by the doctrine of the survival of the fittest and sparkling with Trollope's acute sense of history, psychological insight, and satire.
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