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Barchester Towers

  • Imprint: Vintage Classics

  • ISBN: 9780099595885

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 373g

  • RRP: £7.99

Barchester Towers

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

  • ISBN: 9780099595885

  • Length: 544  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 373g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • Start with Barchester Towers, generally reckoned to be the best, certainly the funniest

    Guardian

  • 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

    Washington Post

  • His characters are real, truthfully felt and never patronised by their creator

    Daily Mail

  • [The] Barsetshire novels firmly established clerical intrigue as an art form in the mid-nineteenth century

    New York Times

  • 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

    Sunday Times

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About the Author

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was one of the most widely enjoyed and prolific novelists of the nineteenth century. His books include the great Chronicles of Barsetshire, of which Barchester Towers is the second volume. Trollope worked for the Post Office for much of his adult life, combining postal and literary business as he travelled around the British Empire. He has been credited with the creation of the distinctive British pillar box.

Anthony Trollope

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