Book description
With an essay by John Kenneth Galbraith.
'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended
stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we
are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!'
Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as
the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle
breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the
zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous
schemer Obadiah Slope.
Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in
Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured
nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an
unparalleled gift for characterization.
The second 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 Barchester Towers
is the second 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
The Warden, 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.
