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Barchester Towers

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[bahr-ches-ter, -chi-ster] / ˈbɑr tʃɛs tər, -tʃɪ stər /

noun

  1. a novel (1857) by Anthony Trollope.


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From Slate Sep. 2, 2016

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From Slate Aug. 17, 2016

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From Slate Jul. 5, 2016

Trollope's Barchester Towers smacks appreciative lips over the pettiness of an English cathedral town, controlled by Mrs. Proudie, a mean woman and a real woman, wife of its weak-minded bishop.

From Time Magazine Archive

Barchester Towers would hardly be so well known as it is had there been no Framley Parsonage and no Last Chronicle of Barset.

From Autobiography of Anthony Trollope by Trollope, Anthony

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