by Anthony Trollope · Wordsworth Editions Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781853260872
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«The Warden» is Anthony Trollope's Victorian satirical novel, published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd in paperback (264 pages, in English).
Septimus Harding, the warden of an ecclesiastical almshouse in Barchester, sees his peaceful life disrupted when the press denounces that his income exceeds what is allotted to the elderly. Pressured by his son-in-law, Archdeacon Grantly, and by reformers, the clergyman faces a dilemma between conscience and ambition in this satire of Victorian England.
First installment of the Chronicles of Barsetshire. This 1994 edition includes an introduction by Joanna Trollope.
For literature students and readers of classic Victorian fiction interested in social criticism and novels of manners.
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.
