Barchester Towers Audio Book Cassettes Unabridged

Barchester Towers
Author: Anthony Trollope
Reader: Simon Vance

It's the funniest novel in the Barchester Chronicles series, combining humor with robust social commentary. Captures all the comedy and conflict between the traditional (High) Church of England and the new (Low) Church folk, featuring such memorable characters as the formidable Mrs. Proudie, the oily Obadiah Slope, and the benevolent Mr. Harding. » Read More

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Publish Date: 08/01/2006
ISBN: 9780786147540

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The second novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire continues the story of the conflict between High and Low Church begun in THE WARDEN. Trollope introduces Mrs. Proudie, the bishop's wife, one of his most famously despicable characters. The plot revolves around the power struggle between her and Mr. Slope, the bishop's chaplain, for control of diocesan politics.

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"...[T]he one book of them all that you would give to someone who said to you, 'Now what is Trollope really like?'"

- Horace Walpole ()

Author Bio:

Trollope worked as a civil servant in the post office until he was 52, at the same time traveling extensively in Britain, the U. S., and Europe. He turned his foreign journeys into travel books and his observations on English life into 47 novels. His books deal with most of the typical themes of Victorian literature: class, money, status, youth and age, marriage and sexual mores, and the crisis in the institutions of the Church of England. Each of the novels is self-contained, but many characters, locales, and situations recur. At the age of 57, he suffered a paralytic stroke while laughing at a family read-aloud session, and died a month later.

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