Barchester Towers

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786057566263
Publisher:	E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	586
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

Trollope has always been a popular novelist. Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I: Who Will Be the New Bishop?

CHAPTER II: Hiram's Hospital According to Act of Parliament

CHAPTER III: Dr. and Mrs. Proudie

CHAPTER IV: The Bishop's Chaplain

CHAPTER V: A Morning Visit

CHAPTER VI: War

CHAPTER VII: The Dean and Chapter Take Counsel

CHAPTER VIII: The Ex-Warden Rejoices in His Probable Return to the Hospital

CHAPTER IX: The Stanhope Family

CHAPTER X: Mrs. Proudie's Reception—Commenced

CHAPTER XI: Mrs. Proudie's Reception—Concluded

CHAPTER XII: Slope versus Harding

CHAPTER XIII: The Rubbish Cart

CHAPTER XIV: The New Champion

CHAPTER XV: The Widow's Suitors

CHAPTER XVI: Baby Worship

CHAPTER XVII: Who Shall Be Cock of the Walk?

CHAPTER XVIII: The Widow's Persecution

CHAPTER XIX: Barchester by Moonlight

CHAPTER XX: Mr. Arabin

CHAPTER XXI: St. Ewold's Parsonage

CHAPTER XXII: The Thornes of Ullathorne

CHAPTER XXIII: Mr. Arabin Reads Himself in at St. Ewold's

CHAPTER XXIV: Mr. Slope Manages Matters Very Cleverly at Puddingdale

CHAPTER XXV: Fourteen Arguments in Favour of Mr. Quiverful's Claims

CHAPTER XXVI: Mrs. Proudie Wrestles and Gets a Fall

CHAPTER XXVII: A Love Scene

CHAPTER XXVIII: Mrs. Bold is Entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Grantly at Plumstead

CHAPTER XXIX: A Serious Interview

CHAPTER XXX: Another Love Scene

CHAPTER XXXI: The Bishop's Library

CHAPTER XXXII: A New Candidate for Ecclesiastical Honours

CHAPTER XXXIII: Mrs. Proudie Victrix

CHAPTER XXXIV: Oxford—The Master and Tutor of Lazarus

CHAPTER XXXV: Miss Thorne's Fête Champêtre

CHAPTER XXXVI: Ullathorne Sports—Act I

CHAPTER XXXVII: The Signora Neroni, the Countess De Courcy, and Mrs. Proudie Meet Each Other at Ullathorne

CHAPTER XXXVIII: The Bishop Sits Down to Breakfast, and the Dean Dies

CHAPTER XXXIX: The Lookalofts and the Greenacres

CHAPTER XL: Ullathorne Sports—Act II

CHAPTER XLI: Mrs. Bold Confides Her Sorrow to Her Friend Miss Stanhope

CHAPTER XLII: Ullathorne Sports—Act III

CHAPTER XLIII: Mr. and Mrs. Quiverful Are Made Happy. Mr. Slope is Encouraged by the Press

CHAPTER XLIV: Mrs. Bold at Home

CHAPTER XLV: The Stanhopes at Home

CHAPTER XLVI: Mr. Slope's Parting Interview with the Signora

CHAPTER XLVII: The Dean Elect

CHAPTER XLVIII: Miss Thorne Shows Her Talent at Match-Making

CHAPTER XLIX: The Beelzebub Colt

CHAPTER L: The Archdeacon Is Satisfied with the State of Affairs

CHAPTER LI: Mr. Slope Bids Farewell to the Palace and Its Inhabitants

CHAPTER LII: The New Dean Takes Possession of the Deanery, and the New Warden of the Hospital

CHAPTER LIII: Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

"There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel."

― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

"Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower."

― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

"Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so. It is hardly too much to say that we all of us occasionally speak of our dearest friends in a manner in which those dearest friends would very little like to hear themselves mentioned, and that we nevertheless expect that our dearest friends shall invariably speak of us as though they were blind to all our faults, but keenly alive to every shade of our virtues."

― Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

From the Publisher

Narrator Timothy West has the technique, versatility, and sense of place to give a fine, idiomatic performance, but not quite the strength of personality to make us give a hoot about the characters and their concerns.”

AudioFile

The second and best of the prolific author’s six novels about the fictional Barsetshire satirizes ecclesiastical politics in rural Victorian Britain. Among the many superbly drawn characters, the risibly overbearing Mrs. Proudie and the feckless Ethelbert Stanhope particularly shine. Some of us may even recognize the central conflict from our own experiences as congregants. Trollope once said, “In the writing of BARCHESTER TOWERS, I took great delight.” The listener gathers that, in the reading of it, Simon Vance also takes great delight. Obviously, he relishes impersonating the dramatis personae. One gets the impression that the more, the merrier, as far as he’s concerned. In addition, he delivers the fustian narrative with particular fluidity, verve, and grace. Y.R. © AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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