Barchester Towers
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NoveList Series:
Chronicles of Barsetshire volume 2.
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New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2014.
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Book
Physical Desc:
xli, 474 pages : map ; 20 cm
Status:
Boulder Main Adult Fiction
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Barchester Towers, by Anthony Trollope, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: - New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars - Biographies of the authors - Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events - Footnotes and endnotes - Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work - Comments by other famous authors - Study questions to challenge the readers viewpoints and expectations - Bibliographies for further reading - Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences-biographical, historical, and literary-to enrich each readers understanding of these enduring works. The second and most popular of Trollope's six Barsetshire novels, BarchesterTowers chronicles the struggles for power and position in an imaginary county in Victorian England. Passions start seething when an "outsider," Dr. Proudie, is appointed bishop of Barchester. Soon, his ambitious, domineering wife and the smarmy, scheming curate, Mr. Slope, are hatching plots and counter-plots as they try to control the choice of a new warden for Hiram's Hospital and a new husband for Eleanor, a lovely young widow and the daughter of the former warden, Mr. Harding. The novel combines the realism of later fiction (including Trollope's own) with such Victorian devices as Dickensian character names and a comically interruptive narrator. The narrator's sharply satiric comments enhance the story's richness, while his playful, reassuring, and mocking asides subvert the reader's expectations, giving the book an unexpectedly post-modernist flavor. Ultimately, we see that Trollope's characters' petty jealousies, selfishness, and meanness are not metaphors for larger issues, they are the issues-the same human failings that, in other contexts, can lead to serious social strife and civil unrest. Edward Mendelsonis Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is W. H. Auden's literary executor and has written widely on nineteenth- and twentieth-century novels.
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English
ISBN:
9780199665860 (pbk.)
Lexile measure:
1090
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Includes bibliographical references.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Trollope, A., & Bowen, J. (2014). Barchester Towers. New York, NY, Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 and John Bowen. 2014. Barchester Towers. New York, NY, Oxford University Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882 and John Bowen, Barchester Towers. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014.
MLA Citation (style guide)Trollope, Anthony and John Bowen. Barchester Towers. New York, NY, Oxford University Press, 2014.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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