ANTHONY TROLLOPE BARCHESTER TOWERS (ILLUSTRATED)
Barchester Towers
Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers is Anthony Trollope's comic masterpiece. Ranged either side of the unfathomable Victoran divide between the High Anglican clergy and their modern Evangelical brethren we meet the saintly Septimus Harding and the furoius Archdeacon Grantley and, opposing, the fearsome Bishop's wife mrs Proudie and her oleaginous chaplain Ebediah Slope. Exquisitely crafted, this classic tale of love amidst ecclestiacal warfare from Trollope's series of Barsetshire Chronicles carries a benign and reassuring message: that the Church of England has always been a source of divine comedy.
The Collector’s Library restores traditional visual and tactile pleasures to the joy of reading.
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Joanna Trollope, novelist
