Barnes & Noble Classics: Barchester Towers (Paperback)

from hjjugovic

Recommended if you enjoy Jane Austen. Trollope is actually funnier than Austen, and his characters are less black-and-white, more finely drawn. There is some rather stunning sexism which is perhaps appropriate from the era that produced the work but shocks nevertheless, perhaps because the story ...

from startingover

I remember first reading this novel when I was at college, doing my A-levels. Choosing Trollope for 'relaxation' might seem strange, perhaps, but really there is something very easeful about this book in particular. The major concerns of the characters are in some ways very modern concerns - the ...

from atimco

Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the second of Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire novels and probably the most famous. On the face of it, the plot seems a bit dull; the high and low church factions of the Church of England struggle for power within the fictional cathedral city of Barchester. ...

from startingover

I remember first reading this novel when I was at college, doing my A-levels. Choosing Trollope for 'relaxation' might seem strange, perhaps, but really there is something very easeful about this book in particular. The major concerns of the characters are in some ways very modern concerns - the ...

from JBD1

After The Warden, another excellent visit to Barsetshire, and another book I had a difficult time putting down. Trollope improves here on his gentle wittiness, absolutely delightful small-scale ecclesiastical Machiavellian scheming, and complicated human dynamics. I'm quite enjoying the way Troll...