by Anthony Trollope · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140432145
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«The Warden» is Anthony Trollope's satirical novel, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (240 pages, in English).
In the cathedral city of Barchester, the financial management of an ecclesiastical almshouse for the elderly sparks a scandal that reaches the national press. The kind-hearted warden Septimus Harding faces the reformer John Bold, suitor of his daughter, in a satire of Victorian clerical England that is also an intimate drama of conscience.
First novel of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, originally published in 1855. This Penguin Classics edition includes an introduction and notes by Robin Gilmour.
For readers of Victorian classics and British social satire, and as a starting point for the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
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.
