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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 02/04/2015
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ISBN: 9780099595885
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Length: 544 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm
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Weight: 373g
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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.
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Imprint: Vintage Classics
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Published: 02/04/2015
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ISBN: 9780099595885
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Length: 544 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 34mm x 129mm
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Weight: 373g
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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Start with Barchester Towers, generally reckoned to be the best, certainly the funniest
Guardian
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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
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His characters are real, truthfully felt and never patronised by their creator
Daily Mail
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[The] Barsetshire novels firmly established clerical intrigue as an art form in the mid-nineteenth century
New York Times
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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
