Barchester Towers
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the cloistered world of a mid-Victorian cathedral city, a bitter war for ecclesiastical power ignites the moment the old Bishop of Barchester draws his last breath. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope's masterful 1857 novel and the beloved second installment of his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, chronicles the clash between the timid new Bishop Proudie, his iron-willed wife, and the scheming, oleaginous Mr. Slope — all while the genteel old guard of Barchester fights desperately to preserve its traditions against the tide of Evangelical reform. Into this delicious fray steps the irresistible Signora Neroni, a captivating invalid who disrupts every social gathering she graces, and the mild-mannered Mr. Arabin, whose own heart becomes an unexpected battleground. Trollope presents his fictional county of Barsetshire as a richly imagined microcosm of English society, using the politics of the Church of England to dissect universal human follies — ambition, vanity, hypocrisy, and the enduring comedy of marriage. His prose is distinguished by its warm, omniscient narration, a shrewd but sympathetic wit, and an extraordinary gift for character, building a cast so vivid they feel drawn from life rather than imagination. Widely regarded as one of the greatest comic novels in the English language, this edition includes an introduction by Robert H. Taylor, offering scholarly context to a work that remains as sharply observant and irresistibly entertaining today as when it was first published — leaving the reader to wonder whether the Church, or human nature itself, has changed at all.
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Hardback
Genre: Classic fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the cloistered world of a mid-Victorian cathedral city, a bitter war for ecclesiastical power ignites the moment the old Bishop of Barchester draws his last breath. Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope's masterful 1857 novel and the beloved second installment of his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, chronicles the clash between the timid new Bishop Proudie, his iron-willed wife, and the scheming, oleaginous Mr. Slope — all while the genteel old guard of Barchester fights desperately to preserve its traditions against the tide of Evangelical reform. Into this delicious fray steps the irresistible Signora Neroni, a captivating invalid who disrupts every social gathering she graces, and the mild-mannered Mr. Arabin, whose own heart becomes an unexpected battleground. Trollope presents his fictional county of Barsetshire as a richly imagined microcosm of English society, using the politics of the Church of England to dissect universal human follies — ambition, vanity, hypocrisy, and the enduring comedy of marriage. His prose is distinguished by its warm, omniscient narration, a shrewd but sympathetic wit, and an extraordinary gift for character, building a cast so vivid they feel drawn from life rather than imagination. Widely regarded as one of the greatest comic novels in the English language, this edition includes an introduction by Robert H. Taylor, offering scholarly context to a work that remains as sharply observant and irresistibly entertaining today as when it was first published — leaving the reader to wonder whether the Church, or human nature itself, has changed at all.