BARCHESTER TOWERS

Anthony Trollope

ISBN 10: 0192834320 / ISBN 13: 9780192834324

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

About this Item

Very Good+ in wrappers. Edge wear. Creasing to front panel's lower right corner. First Edition; number line descends to "1". ; Oxford World's Classics; 7.64 X 5.04 X 1.34 inches; 388 pages. Seller Inventory # 96038

Bibliographic Details

Title: BARCHESTER TOWERS

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Softcover

Illustrator: Ardizzone, Edward

Edition: First Edition; First Printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire.

The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. Trollope was of course interested in the Church, that pillar of Victorian society - in its susceptibility to corruption, hypocrisy, and blinkered conservatism - but the Barsetshire novels are no more
`ecclesiastical' than his Palliser novels are `political'. It is the behaviour of the individuals within a power structure that interests him. In this novel Trollope continues the story of Mr Harding and his daughter Eleanor, 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. The central questions of this moral comedy - Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? - are skilfully handled with that subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative
readership.

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.