Barchester Towers
Ratings15
Average rating3.9
15
Ratings15
Average rating3.9
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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I found this book slow paced and the first 1/3 of the book was hard to stick with. After that I found myself finally understanding the characters and their roles. It does help to research “low church” (Protestant emphasis) and “high church”(Anglican- Catholic emphasis)on Google while reading through this book.
Excellent :-D
Who could have thought there's so much going on in a small town clerical circles :-D (Now, I don't think it's that small a town, having all these positions, but it feels like a village :-D)
And it's funny, witty, easy read, very enjoyable.
And now I just HAVE to find the 1982 TV series... Alan Rickman as Obadiah Slope and Susan Hampshire as La Signora :-D
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6 primary booksChronicles of Barsetshire is a 6-book series with 6 primary works first released in 1855 with contributions by Anthony Trollope and Andrew Maunder.
