| The Warden Contributor(s): Trollope, Anthony (Author), Auchincloss, Louis (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0812967046 ISBN-13: 9780812967043 Publisher: Random House Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2003 Annotation: The first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, "The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, "The theme of "The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated Trollope: the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social awareness." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002024533 |
| Lexile Measure: 1180 |
| Series: Modern Library Classics (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.2" W x 7.9" (0.65 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, "The theme of The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated Trollope: the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social awareness." |