Barchester Towers
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  • Published: 1 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099595885
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $22.99

Barchester Towers

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2 Apr 2015
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25 Jul 2012
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31 May 2012
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1 Jul 2015
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4 Dec 2003
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24 Apr 1992
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Be irresistibly drawn into Barchester's clerical skirmishes as Archdeacon Grantly declares war on Bishop Proudie and his retinue in Trollope's most popular novel


Be irresistibly drawn into Barchester's clerical skirmishes as Archdeacon Grantly declares war on Bishop Proudie and his retinue in Trollope's most popular novel.

This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. It opens with the Bishop of Barchester lying on his death bed; soon a battle begins over who will take over power, with key players including the rather incompetent Dr Proudie, his fiendishly unpleasant wife and his slippery curate, Slope. This is a wonderfully rich novel, in which men and women are too shy to tell each other of their love; misunderstandings abound; and Church of England officials are only too willing to undermine each other in the battle for power.

One of Trollope's best-loved novels, it is a dazzlingly real portrayal of nineteenth-century provincial England peppered with humour, wisdom and extraordinary characters.
  • Published: 1 July 2015
  • ISBN: 9780099595885
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $22.99
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About the author

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.

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The Barchester Chronicles
Last Chronicle Of Barset
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The Complete Barchester Chronicles
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Praise for Barchester Towers

Start with Barchester Towers, generally reckoned to be the best, certainly the funniest

Guardian

It was in [Trollope's] fifth book, Barchester Towers, in which he blended his satirical gifts with disdain for evangelical puritanism, that he found himself

Washington Post

His characters are real, truthfully felt and never patronised by their creator

Daily Mail

[The] Barsetshire novels firmly established clerical intrigue as an art form in the mid-nineteenth century

New York Times

Trollope is one of our greatest comic novelists, as well as having an extraordinary talent for taking you confidentially and irresistibly into the flow of his story

Sunday Times
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