Dr. Wortle's School (Hardcover)

from LukeS

My one exposure to Trollope, and I came away quite impressed. The story deals not so much with the titular doctor's school, but with the doctor himself. Dr. Wortle is a clergyman who runs a well-thought-of school, but who finds himself in difficulty because he refuses to turn his back on some ten...

from hardlyhardy

“It is often a question to me whether the religion of the world is not more odious than its want of religion.” — Anthony Trollope, “Dr. Wortle's School” Jesus himself, when sounding off against hypocrites, probably would have agreed with Dr. Wortle in his comment above, for hypocrisy and an absen...

from stillatim

Surly but goodhearted rector, morally rigid but kind clergyman, long-suffering bishop, nosy and irritating evangelical woman, innocent young woman, love story, moral controversy in a provincial diocese, self-aware and charmingly intrusive narrator... yep, this is the Barsetshire Chronicles in abo...

from stringcat3

Dr. Wortle's School was enjoyable to a degree but left me vaguely dissatisfied - much like eating fruit for dessert when what you wanted was a hunk o' fudge cake. DWS is pure Victorian melodrama, albeit with plenty of Trollope's relentless ridicule of the society's hypocrisy and lack of Christian...

from pgchuis

Dr Wortle employs at his exclusive boys' prep school a Mr and Mrs Peacocke. Mr Peacocke met his American wife in St Louis and they do not socialize with the families around them. It transpires that the couple married after Mrs Peacocke's first husband died, but after 6 months said husband returne...