by Anthony Trollope · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260896
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«Barchester Towers» is Anthony Trollope's satirical novel published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (464 pages, in English).
The action takes place in the cathedral city of Barchester, where the arrival of a new bishop, the ambition of Mr Slope and the interests of several families stir the ecclesiastical environment. With irony, the novel portrays clerical disputes, hypocrisies and romantic entanglements in Victorian England.
The second instalment of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, a saga of six novels by Anthony Trollope, continues the story of Mr Harding and Eleanor begun in The Warden.
Will appeal to readers of Victorian fiction and English literary classics who appreciate social satire and clerical intrigues.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as The Way We Live Now. His novels address political, social, and gender issues and other topical matters. He also wrote an autobiography, a book on William Makepeace Thackeray, a book on Lord Palmerston, five travel books, and 42 short stories.
