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The Warden: The First Novel of the Barsetshire Series
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781515434672
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
First published in 1855, The Warden is Anthony Trollope's quiet and incisive novel of conscience, reform, and ecclesiastical life in Victorian England.
The story centers on Septimus Harding, the gentle warden of a charitable almshouse in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester. When questions arise regarding the legitimacy of his income-derived from a centuries-old endowment-Harding finds himself drawn into public controversy and moral self-examination. Trollope's treatment of the issue is neither strident nor polemical; instead, he portrays the complexity of institutional reform through the lens of personal integrity and human sympathy.
As the first of the Barsetshire novels, The Warden establishes the social world and clerical society that Trollope would later expand in Barchester Towers and subsequent volumes. The novel balances gentle satire with genuine compassion, offering a nuanced portrait of Victorian religious and civic life.
This SMK Books edition presents the complete, unabridged 1855 text.
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