Barchester Towers (World's Classics S.)

by Anthony Trollope (Author), Michael Sadleir (Editor), Frederick Page (Editor), Anthony Trollope (Author), Frederick Page (Editor), Michael Sadleir (Editor), Anthony Trollope (Author), J.R. Kincaid (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  1980

  $4.64

• Used

  Paperback
  1980

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1987

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  1983

  $11.79

  After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will succeed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made to appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop, Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divisions within the diocese. Trollope's masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and comic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such very different figures as the saintly Warden of Hiram's Hospital, Septimus Harding, the ineffectual but well-meaning new bishop and his terrifying wife, and the oily chaplain Mr Slope who has designs on Mr Harding's daughter.

• New

  Hardcover
  1992

  $17.10

  Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers - struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect - actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. That awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama in this magnificent novel and it transforms the story of a fight for ascendency among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral into something fundamental and universal. Barchester Towers is the second of Trollope's six Barchester Novels, all published by Everyman's Library.