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The Warden: The Chronicles of Barsetshire
Anthony Trollope
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Description for The Warden: The Chronicles of Barsetshire
Paperback. John Bold loves Eleanor Harding, but is campaigning against her father, the Warden, for mismanagement of charitable funds. This witty love story combines a comic portrayal of life in an English cathedral close with larger social and political issues. This edition includes Trollope's last Barset fiction 'The Two Heroines of Plumplington'. Editor(s): Shrimpton, Nicholas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 238.
'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.' John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is the Warden. How can this tangle be resolved? In the novel which is Trollope's first acknowledged masterpiece, the emotional drama is staged against the background of two major contemporary social issues: the inappropriate use of charitable funds and the irresponsible exercise of the power ... Read more
'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.' John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is the Warden. How can this tangle be resolved? In the novel which is Trollope's first acknowledged masterpiece, the emotional drama is staged against the background of two major contemporary social issues: the inappropriate use of charitable funds and the irresponsible exercise of the power ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199665440
SKU
V9780199665440
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About Anthony Trollope
Nicholas Shrimpton is the editor of Trollope's Palliser novel, The Prime Minister (OUP, 2011) and a new edition of Trollope's Autobiography (OUP, 2014). He is currently completing an editon of Matthew Arnold's poetry and a book on Arnold's early poetry.
Reviews for The Warden: The Chronicles of Barsetshire
Shrimpton's edition of he Warden (1855) contextualizes Trollope's critique of a newspaper called the Jupiter by exploring "thundering" Times editorials about the Crimean War.
Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement
Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement