by Anthony Trollope · Pearson Education Limited · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780582418189
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«The Warden» is the adaptation of the novel by Anthony Trollope published in the Penguin Readers collection, level 3, in paperback (75 pages, in English).
Septimus Harding, the kind warden of an almshouse in the cathedral city of Barchester, faces a decision that seems simple: resign or keep his post. What begins as a personal matter soon becomes a public scandal involving his family, his friends, the Church and, finally, the whole country.
The original novel was published in 1855; at the end of the book there are vocabulary, comprehension, discussion and writing exercises.
Intended for students of English as a second language and for English-speaking teenagers with reading difficulties.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as The Way We Live Now. His novels address political, social, and gender issues and other topical matters. He also wrote an autobiography, a book on William Makepeace Thackeray, a book on Lord Palmerston, five travel books, and 42 short stories.
