Barchester Towers
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A series of graded readers covering a wide range of styles and kinds of English, both fiction and non-fiction, with comprehension exercises, questions and crosswords. Level 4 has a vocabulary of 1500 words.Amazon.com Review
This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester. The evangelical but not particularly competent new bishop is Dr. Proudie, who with his dreadful wife and oily curate, Slope, maneuver for power. The Warden and Barchester Towers are part of Trollope’s Barsetshire series, in which some of the same characters recur.
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A classic, no doubt, but still a chore to get through. If Mr. Trollope were to write this book today, it would be half as long. I loved the insights into a long ago set of values, and there were many instances when his wry humour stirred me to laughter, but this is a tedious read. I confes I “power read” parts of it. I’m glad I have read Trollope, but I doubt that I will read more of him.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
From another century comes a voice that speaks to us today. Most writers hope for a shelf life of a year or two. Did Anthony Trollope have a clue that we’d be reading and relishing and learning and find ourselves mesmerized by him so many decades after he wrote this book? Is the TV age, the media and internet age lowering all our IQ’s and ability to concentrate, as the contemporary leader Sven Birkerts suggests? All I know is that re-reading this book last month was a joy, and I suggest all here turn off the TV, get off the internet and win back our minds with the wonderful book.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
This is a very excellent edition, for a paperback. It has many helpful features–chronology, notes, character guide, map, biography of leader. I recommend it highly.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I became hooked on this Victorian Brit writer after reading The Way We Live Now- brilliant read. I laughed my behind off reading Barchester Towers. If your churched Anglican in any way you’ll delight in this novel.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Subsequent to his father’s death, the archdeacon is not made bishop. Dr. Proudie receives the appointment to that office. Another change in Barchester from the circumstances described in THE WARDEN is the status of Mr. Harding’s daughter, Eleanor Bold. She is a widow. Eight months after the death of John Bold, another John Bold is born.
Dr. Grantly and Mr. Harding find themselves disliking the bishop’s chaplain, Mr. Slope, and his wife, Mrs. Proudie. If Mr. Proudie is to return to his ex- position of warden, Mr. Slope claims he must embrace certain conditions. Under the circumstances, Mr. Harding refuses. The position is agreed to Mr. Quiverful, Mrs. Proudie’s candidate.
Dr. Proudie raises the issue of absent clergy, and Dr. Vesey Stanhope returns to England after having resided in Italy for twelve years. Mr. Arabin, the new man recruited by the archdeacon for the living at St. Ewold, has been on the side of the Tractarians at Oxford. (Schism has the advantage of calling attention to religion.) Arabin has become tired of his Oxford room and college life. He is forty.
Mr. Slope and Mrs. Proudie are in a contest to be puppet master to the bishop. In the book’s plot, Eleanor Bold, one of the more engaging characters, shoulders an immense burden through a misunderstanding. An added interest is the jockeying of the High Church group, the archdeacon and Mr. Arabin and Mr. Harding, and the Low Church enclave, the bishop, Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope, for power.
That said, the larger part of the reading experience is an enounter with comedy, rather than tragedy. The characters are delightful.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5