Book description
With an essay by Robin Gilmour.
'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream
should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet paths should be
made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which
been allotted to him ... made miserable and unsound'
Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town
shaken by scandal - as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are
attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers - is a drama of
conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition. In
The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of
Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised
characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the
minutiae of Victorian England.
The first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction
in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to
the beginning of the First World War.
Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was one of the most widely enjoyed and
prolific novelists of the nineteenth century. His books include the
great Chronicles of Barsetshire, of which The Warden is
the first volume. Trollope worked for the Post Office for much of his
adult life, combining postal and literary business as he travelled
around the British Empire. He has been credited with the creation of
the distinctive British pillar box.
The other five titles in the Chronicles of Barsetshire are
Barchester Towers, Dr Thorne, Framley
Parsonage, The Small House at Allington and The Last
Chronicle of Barset, all of which are published in the Penguin
English Library.
