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Barchester Towers (Collectors Library)

Barchester Towers (Collectors Library)

by Anthony Trollope (Author), L.LeslieBrooke (Illustrator), F . C . Tilney (Illustrator), NedHalley (Afterword)

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Synopsis

Barchester Towers is Anthony Trollope's comic masterpiece. Ranged either side of the unfathomable Victorian divide between the High Anglican clergy and their modern, evangelical brethren we meet the saintly Septimus Harding and the furious Archdeacon Grantly and, opposing, the fearsome bishop's wife Mrs Proudie and her oleaginous chaplain, Obadiah Slope. Exquisitely crafted, this classic tale of love amid ecclesiastical warfare from Trollope's series of Barsetshire Chronicles carries a benign and reassuring message - that the Church of England has always been a rich source of divine comedy.

Illustrated by Leslie Brooke, with an Afterword by Ned Halley.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 688
 Publisher: Collector's Library
Published: 01 Apr 2013
ISBN 10: 1907360867
ISBN 13: 9781907360862

Author Bio
Anthony Trollope was born in London in 1815 and had a troubled childhood. His father was a barrister of good family determined to educate his three sons as gentlemen but unable to afford it. Anthony, the youngest, suffered most. Large and ungainly as well as embarrassingly impecunious, he suffered cruel mistreatment at Harrow and Winchester. His mother Fanny came to the rescue by winning fame and wealth as an author. She found Anthony a job in the Post Office in 1834. After seven hard years he transferred to Ireland, where he prospered, married, and started to write novels of Irish life. Posted back to London he travelled widely devising mail-delivery routes and was inspired to write his first novel set in England, The Warden, in 1855. It was followed by Barchester Towers, launching the popular series of Barsetshire Chronicles that established his literary reputation. Dozens more novels including the political series The Pallisers and many works of history and journalism were to follow. In 1867 he resigned from the Post Office, where he is credited with introducing the pillar box, to write full-time. He did so until his death in 1882.