BEIN Modern Library 833: From the collection of John I. Ely.

BEIN Tanselle Z41 0119: With dust jacket, circa 1954 (based on list of titles printed inside jacket). Bookplate of George Thomas Tanselle.

Barchester Towers: Barchester Towers, published in 1857 by Anthony Trollope, is the second novel in his series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". Among other things it satirises the antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855.

The Warden centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor. It was a highly topical novel (a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate), but like other great Victorian novelists, Trollope uses the specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality.

Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place) > Fiction.

Barchester (England : Imaginary place) > Fiction.

Man-woman relationships > Fiction.

Almshouses > Fiction.

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England > Social life and customs > 19th century > Fiction.

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Fiction

Satire

Domestic fiction.

Satirical literature.

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