Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/04/2015
ISBN: 9780099595885
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £7.99
Be irresistibly drawn into Barchester's clerical skirmishes as Archdeacon Grantly declares war on Bishop Proudie and his retinue in Trollope's most popular novel.
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly unpleasant wife and his slippery curate, Slope. This is a wonderfully rich novel, in which men and women are too shy to tell each other of their love; misunderstandings abound; and Church of England officials are only too willing to undermine each other in the battle for power.
One of Trollope's best-loved novels, it is a dazzlingly real portrayal of nineteenth-century provincial England peppered with humour, wisdom and extraordinary characters.
Imprint: Vintage Classics
Published: 02/04/2015
ISBN: 9780099595885
Length: 544 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm
Weight: 373g
RRP: £7.99
Start with Barchester Towers, generally reckoned to be the best, certainly the funniest
It was in [Trollope's] fifth book, Barchester Towers, in which he blended his satirical gifts with disdain for evangelical puritanism, that he found himself
His characters are real, truthfully felt and never patronised by their creator
[The] Barsetshire novels firmly established clerical intrigue as an art form in the mid-nineteenth century
Trollope is one of our greatest comic novelists, as well as having an extraordinary talent for taking you confidentially and irresistibly into the flow of his story