The Warden: The Chronicles of Barsetshire - Brossura

Trollope, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199665443 ISBN 13: 9780199665440

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2014

Riassunto

'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.'

John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is the Warden. How can this tangle be resolved? In the novel which is Trollope's first acknowledged masterpiece, the emotional drama is staged against the background of two major contemporary social issues: the inappropriate use of charitable funds and the irresponsible exercise of the power of the press. A witty love story, in the Jane Austen tradition, this is also an unusually subtle example of 'Condition of England' fiction, combining its charming portrayal of life in an English cathedral close with a serious engagement in larger social and political issues.

The Warden is the first of the six books which form Trollope's Barsetshire series of novels. This edition also includes 'The Two Heroines of Plumplington' - the short story which Trollope added, just before his death, to provide a final episode in the annals of Barsetshire.

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Recensione:

Shrimpton's edition of he Warden (1855) contextualizes Trollope's critique of a newspaper called the Jupiter by exploring "thundering" Times editorials about the Crimean War. (Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement)

L'autore:

Nicholas Shrimpton is the editor of Trollope's Palliser novel, The Prime Minister (OUP, 2011) and a new edition of Trollope's Autobiography (OUP, 2014). He is currently completing an editon of Matthew Arnold's poetry and a book on Arnold's early poetry.

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199665443
• ISBN 13: 9780199665440
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 336
• Redattore: Shrimpton Nicholas