Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers

Introduction by Victoria Glendinning

About the Book

The second novel of Anthony Trollope’s brilliant Barsetshire series, presented here in a gorgeous hardcover edition.

Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers—struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect—actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. That awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama in this magnificent novel, and it transforms the story of a fight for ascendency among the clergy and dependents of a great English cathedral into something fundamental and universal.

Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Everyman’s Library Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
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Praise for Barchester Towers

“Trollope is that rare thing: a strong writer with a trustworthy imagination…. Yet, beyond saying that his writing feels like life, it’s hard to say just how he works his magic…. Trollope, quite uncynically, understands both what’s necessary to make the world go round and which way the world ought to be made to turn… Politics and gossip are still the essential life of the world…and any writer who can turn them into art will survive.” —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker
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Chronicles of Barsetshire Series

The Warden
The Small House at Allington
The Last Chronicle of Barset
Framley Parsonage
Doctor Thorne
The Eustace Diamonds
Barchester Towers

About the Author

Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction. More by Anthony Trollope
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Victoria Glendinning
Victoria Glendinning is the Whitbread Award-winning biographer of Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Bowen, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West, and Jonathan Swift. Her novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity, and Flight, were critical and commercial successes. She lives in London, England. More by Victoria Glendinning
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