Barchester Towers (The World's Classics)

Trollope, Anthony

ISBN 10: 0192815075 / ISBN 13: 9780192815071

Published by Oxford University Press, 1981

Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. Seller Inventory # 00070221834

Synopsis:

Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see. His wife, Mrs Proudie, exercises an undue influence over the new bishop, making herself as well as the bishop unpopular with most of the clergy of the diocese.

Review: This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his awful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope's Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Barchester Towers (The World's Classics)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1981
Binding: Soft cover
Illustrator: Ardizzone, Edward
Condition: Good