Barchester Towers
About this book
*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.
Chronicles of Barsetshire · 6 books
In publication order- The Warden 1855
- Barchester Towers 1857 This book
- Doctor Thorne 1858
- Framley Parsonage 1861
Subjects
- almshouses
- barchester (england : imaginary place)
- barchester (england: imaginary place)
- barchester (england : imaginary place) -- fiction
- barchester (england : imaginary place), fiction
- barsetshire (england : imaginary place)
- barsetshire (england: imaginary place)
- british and irish fiction (fictional works by one author)
- church of england
- classic literature
- classics
- clergy
- clergy -- fiction
- clergy, fiction
- clergy in fiction
- domestic fiction
- england, fiction
- england in fiction
- english fiction
- english language
- englis language
- fiction
- fiction -- classics
- fiction, family life, general
- fiction, fantasy, general
- fiction, general
- fiction, sagas
- foreign speakers
- literature
- long now manual for civilization
- manners and customs
- problems, exercises
- readers
- readers (adult)
- readers for new literates
- readers (primary)
- reading comprehension
- social conditions
- social life and customs
- strategy
- study and teaching
- united states, military policy