Barchester Towers / Anthony Trollope ; text edited by Michael Sadleir and Frederick Page ; introduction and notes by John Sutherland, with illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.

Author
Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/​Created
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University, 1996.
Description
1 online resource (673 p.)

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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 behaviour of the individuals within a power structure that interests him. In this novel Trollope continues the story of Mr Harding andh
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Includes bibliographical references (p.283-328).
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English
Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Anthony Trollope; Map of Barsetshire; BARCHESTER TOWERS; Appendix 1: Anthony Trollope on Barchester Towers; Appendix 2: Who's Who in Barchester Towers; Appendix 3: A Note on the Chronology; Appendix 4: A Note on Trollopian Names; Explanatory Notes
ISBN
  • 1-280-68401-1
  • 9786613660954
  • 0-19-161055-0
OCLC
  • 794664535
  • 34151576
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