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Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

First Published

2009

Subjects

Fiction
Clergy
Clergy in fiction
Barchester (England: Imaginary place)
Barsetshire (England: Imaginary place)
Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place)
Barchester (England : Imaginary place)
Social life and customs
England in fiction
Classic Literature
Literature
Almshouses
British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
Readers
Reading comprehension
Fiction, general
England, fiction
Barchester (england : imaginary place), fiction
Problems, exercises
Readers (Adult)
English fiction
Classics
Manners and customs
Church of England
Clergy, fiction
Fiction, family life, general
Fiction, sagas
Englis language
English language
Study and teaching
Foreign speakers
Readers (Primary)
Readers for new literates
Strategy
United states, military policy
Fiction, fantasy, general
Barchester (England : Imaginary place) -- Fiction
Clergy -- Fiction
Domestic fiction
FICTION -- Classics
Social conditions

Description

*The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers* Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester. Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten-year apprenticeship, Trollope finally found his distinctive voice. In this his most popular novel, the chronicler continues the story of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, begun in The Warden, adding to his cast of characters that oily symbol of "progress" Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Dr. Proudie, and the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. Love, mammon, clerical in-fighting, and promotion again figure prominently and comically, all centered on the magnificently imagined cathedral city of Barchester. The central questions of this moral comedy -- Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? -- are skilfully handled with the subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative readership over the last 150 years. - Back cover.

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