Barchester Towers
Trollope, Anthony , 1815-1882
Barchester Towers / Anthony Trollope, Edward Mendelson ; [edited by] George Stade - New York, NY : Barnes & Noble Classics , 2005. - 525 p. ; 23 cm.
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 behavior 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.
9781593083373
2005926180
Clergy---England----Fiction
Barchester (England : Imaginary place)----Fiction
England---Social life and customs---19th century----Fiction
Barchester Towers / Anthony Trollope, Edward Mendelson ; [edited by] George Stade - New York, NY : Barnes & Noble Classics , 2005. - 525 p. ; 23 cm.
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 behavior 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.
9781593083373
2005926180
Clergy---England----Fiction
Barchester (England : Imaginary place)----Fiction
England---Social life and customs---19th century----Fiction