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The Warden

Author
Anthony Trollope
Series
The Barchester Chronicles
Language
English
Length
176 pages
ISBN
9781910660522
Published
15 January 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Victorian England
  • moral dilemma
  • almshouse
  • scandal
  • integrity
  • public duty
  • ecclesiastical conflict
  • social reform
  • conscience
  • small-town politics

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"The Warden" by Anthony Trollope is the first entry in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, a series that brilliantly captures the essence of Victorian England through its examination of moral dilemmas. Set against the backdrop of a tranquil cathedral town, the story revolves around Mr. Harding, a benevolent warden of an almshouse who finds himself at the center of a potential scandal stirred by reformers and the press. As he grapples with personal integrity versus public duty, Trollope explores themes of conscience, power, and the complexities of human nature.

Author

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) spent his days as a Post Office surveyor and his early hours at the novel — a clerk's discipline that produced an English county of clergy and a later London of money. Barchester Towers is the church as weather: preferment, gossip, a bishop's wife. The Way We Live Now is the same eye on speculation and the social lie. He wrote without apology for the method. Church, vote, and marriage sit in the same air.

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