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Barchester Towers
by Anthony Trollope
Barchester Towers picks up about five years after where its predecessor left off, re-introducing many of the principal characters from The Warden, including the much loved Mr. Harding, and adding a handful of new ones to the mix.
Alas again Mr. Harding finds himself a pawn in an episcopal battle of wills, this time with newcomers, the she-bishop Mrs. Proudie and the odious Mr. Slope acting as the principal combatants. Naturally there is a romance as well, but instead of a love triangle, Trollope gives the reader a highly comical love quadrangle. Particularly droll are the narrator’s asides and winks to the reader.
I wonder why Trollope is not as well known or as lionized as Dickens; his books are just as engaging, moral, clever and funny and in some ways more accessible to the modern reader.
Alas again Mr. Harding finds himself a pawn in an episcopal battle of wills, this time with newcomers, the she-bishop Mrs. Proudie and the odious Mr. Slope acting as the principal combatants. Naturally there is a romance as well, but instead of a love triangle, Trollope gives the reader a highly comical love quadrangle. Particularly droll are the narrator’s asides and winks to the reader.
I wonder why Trollope is not as well known or as lionized as Dickens; his books are just as engaging, moral, clever and funny and in some ways more accessible to the modern reader.