The Warden - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451518802 ISBN 13: 9780451518804

Publisher: Signet Classics, 1984

Synopsis

'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ...made miserable and unsound'.Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal - as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers - is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition.In The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the minutiae of Victorian England. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire .

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The first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, "The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, "The theme of "The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated Trollope: the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social awareness."

Edition details

• Publisher: Signet Classics
• Publication date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451518802
• ISBN 13: 9780451518804
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 215