The Warden — Anthony Trollope
The Warden
Anthony TrollopePenguin Classics
The Warden
Anthony TrollopeThe Penguin English Library Edition of The Warden by Anthony Trollope It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him made miserable and unsound Trollope s witty satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition In The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the minutiae of Victorian England The first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire The Penguin English Library 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War
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How much sweet solace how much valued counsel has our archdeacon received within that sainted enclosure Tis there alone that he unbends and comes down from his high church pedestal to the level of a mortal man In the world Dr Grantly never lays aside that demeanour which so well becomes him He has all the dignity of an ancient saint with the sleekness of a modern bishop he is always the same he is always the archdeacon unlike Homer he never nods Even with his father in law even with the bishop and dean he maintains that sonorous tone and lofty deportment which strikes awe into the young hearts of Barchester and absolutely cows the whole parish of Plumstead Episcopi Tis only when he has exchanged that ever new shovel hat for a tasselled nightcap and those shining black habiliments for his accustomed robe de nuit that Dr Grantly talks and looks and thinks like an ordinary man