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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. Please Note: This book has been reformatted to be easy to read in true text, not scanned images that can sometimes be difficult to decipher. The Microsoft eBook has a contents page linked to the chapter headings for easy navigation. The Adobe eBook has bookmarks at chapter headings and is printable up to two full copies per year. Both versions are text searchable.
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.
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4 primary booksChronicles of Barsetshire is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 1855 with contributions by Anthony Trollope, Andrew Maunder, and Энтони Троллоп.
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Excellent :-D
Who could have thought there's so much going on in a small town clerical circles :-D (Now, I don't think it's that small a town, having all these positions, but it feels like a village :-D)
And it's funny, witty, easy read, very enjoyable.
And now I just HAVE to find the 1982 TV series... Alan Rickman as Obadiah Slope and Susan Hampshire as La Signora :-D