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Author: Trollope, Anthony
ISBN: 9780141199115

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Readers report a mixed start but an ultimately positive experience. One found the opening third slow until the characters and church politics settled into focus, while another praised the novel as witty, funny, and an easy, enjoyable portrait of small-town clerical intrigue. Knowing the difference between low and high church can enhance the read, and the lively ensemble even spurs interest in adaptations.

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!'

Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope.

Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization.

The second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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Title Penguin English Library Barchester Towers
Author Anthony Trollope
Binding Paperback
Edition International Ed
Pages 496
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Penguin Group
Publication date 2012
ISBN 9780141199115 / 0141199113
Weight 0.93 lbs (0.42 kg)
Dimensions 7.76 x 5.08 x 1.1 in (19.71 x 12.90 x 2.79 cm)
Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

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.