Barchester Towers

Third Edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by John Bowen

Oxford World's Classics

• Barchester Towers is the second novel in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, a richly comic story of clerical in-fighting centring on the formidable Mrs Proudie and the oily Mr Slope, and the disruption to Barchester society by the arrival of the lively Stanhope familly.
• John Bowen's introduction examines the literary skill with which Trollope combines comedy and acute social and pyschological observation.
• Helpful notes provide contextual background and draw on the latest scholarship.
• Includes a Biographical Preface and Chronology of Trollope's life, an up-to-date Bibliography, full textual note, and Trollope's Map of Barsetshire.
• The appendices include Trollope's general introduction to the Chronicles of Barsetshire series and Nicholas Shrimpton's invaluable survey of the Barsetshire novels and the Church.

Barchester Towers

Third Edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by John Bowen

Oxford World's Classics

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Barchester Towers

Third Edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by John Bowen

Oxford World's Classics

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Barchester Towers

Third Edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by John Bowen

Oxford World's Classics

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Third Edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by John Bowen

Oxford World's Classics

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