Barchester Towers
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From Slate • Jul. 28, 2016
In Barchester Towers, Mr. Hardinge hopes to regain the wardenship, but Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope want to give it to a poor clergyman with 14 children, who obviously needs it more.
From Slate • Jul. 5, 2016
Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope Many readers’ favorite of Trollope’s many novels, this story of political struggles in a rural town combines social satire and acute psychological observation.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2016
As the literary grandson of Trollope and son of Galsworthy, Delderfield industriously erected his own Barchester Towers, climbed his own Forsythe family tree.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he can sometimes, as in the Stanhope family of Barchester Towers, in Mrs. Proudie passim, in Madalina Demolines, and in others, draw characters very little removed from those who live with us for ever.
From A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by Saintsbury, George
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