Barchester Towers - Everyman's Library classics

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UK Kirkus review

Barchester Towers stands alone, in common with every novel in the Barsetshire series of which it is the second. It tells the story of the struggle for a cathedral town's soul between the new bishop's reforming wife Mrs Proudie (a telling name for a woman rightly remembered as one of the great creations of Victorian fiction) and her scheming cohort, the chaplain Obadiah Slope, and the conservative forces of Barchester who are led by Archedaecon Grantly, the late bishop's son. This comic novel, with its romantic subplots, made Trollope's name with the Victorian reading public and its inspired charaterization and depiction of the clash between old and new make it every bit as readable today. (Kirkus UK)

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