Barchester Towers

By Anthony Trollope

Subjects: Problems, exercises, Classics, Clergy, English language, Readers for new literates, Domestic fiction, Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place), Fiction, sagas, Strategy, Barsetshire (England: Imaginary place), Fiction, fantasy, general, Readers (Primary), Clergy, fiction, United states, military policy, FICTION -- Classics, Classic Literature, Fiction, Readers (Adult), Barchester (England : Imaginary place) -- Fiction, Clergy in fiction, Barchester (England: Imaginary place), British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author), Reading comprehension, Church of England, English fiction, Foreign speakers, Social life and customs, Englis language, Manners and customs, Study and teaching, England, fiction, Readers, Clergy -- Fiction, Literature, Barchester (england : imaginary place), fiction, England in fiction, Fiction, family life, general, Barchester (England : Imaginary place), Fiction, general, Almshouses

Description: *The Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 2: Barchester Towers* Written as a sequel to "The Warden", this is the second book of the Barsetshire novels. Described as humorous, this wonderful novel that interweaves power, love, greed, and deceit in Barchester. Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten-year apprenticeship, Trollope finally found his distinctive voice. In this his most popular novel, the chronicler continues the story of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, begun in The Warden, 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. Love, mammon, clerical in-fighting, and promotion again figure prominently and comically, all centered on the magnificently imagined cathedral city of Barchester. The central questions of this moral comedy -- Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? -- are skilfully handled with the subtlety of ironic observation that has won Trollope such a wide and appreciative readership over the last 150 years. - Back cover.