Barchester Towers (version 2)

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Anthony Trollope In Year : 0

Book Language: English

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Who will Be the New Bishop?
Hiram's Hospital, According to Act of Parliament
Dr. and Mrs. Proudie
The Bishop's Chaplain
A Morning Visit
War
The Dean and Chapter Take Counsel
The Ex-Warden Rejoices in His Probable Return to the Hospital
The Stanhope Family
Mrs. Proudie's Reception--Commenced
Mrs. Proudie's Reception--Concluded
Slope versus Harding
The Rubbish Cart
The New Champion
The Widow's Suitors
Baby Worship
Who Shall Be Cock of the Walk?
The Widow's Persecution
Barchester by Moonlight
Mr. Arabin
St Ewold's Parsonage
The Thornes of Ullathorne
Mr. Arabin Reads Himself in at St. Ewold's
Mr. Slope Manages Very Cleverly at Puddingdale
Fourteen Arguments in Favour of Mr. Quiverful's Claims
Mrs. Proudie Wrestles and Gets a Fall
A Love Scene
Mrs. Bold is Entertained by Dr. and Mrs. Grantly at Plumstead
A Serious Interview
Another Love Scene
The Bishop's Library
A New Candidate for Ecclesiastical Honours
Mrs. Proudie Victrix
Oxford--The Master and Tutor of Lazarus
Miss Thorne's Fete Champetre
Ullathorne Sports--Act I.
The Countess De Courcy, Mrs. Proudie, and the Signora Neroni Meet Each Other at Ullathorne
The Bishop Sits Down to Breakfast, and the Dean Dies
The Lookalofts and the Greenacres
Ullathorne Sports--Act II.
Mrs. Bold Confides Her Sorrow to Her Friend Miss Stanhope
Ullathorne Sports--Act III.
Mr. and Mrs. Quiverful Are Made Happy. Mr. Slope Is Encouraged by the Press
Mrs. Bold at Home
The Stanhopes at Home
Mr. Slope's Parting Interview with the Signora
The Dean Elect
Miss Thorne Shows Her Talent at Match-making
The Beelzebub Colt
The Archdeacon Is Satisfied with the State of Affairs
Mr. Slope Bids Farewell to the Palace and Its Inhabitants
The New Dean Takes Possession of the Deanery, and the New Warden of the Hospital
Conclusion

Barchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". It follows on from The Warden, set some years later, with some of the same characters. Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. He wrote constantly, and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train. "Pray know that when a man begins writing a book he never gives over," he wrote in a letter during this period. "The evil with which he is beset is as inveterate as drinking – as exciting as gambling." And, years later in his autobiography, he observed "In the writing of Barchester Towers I took great delight. The bishop and Mrs. Proudie were very real to me, as were also the troubles of the archdeacon and the loves of Mr. Slope." But when he submitted his finished work, his publisher, William Longman, initially turned it down, finding much of it to be full of "vulgarity and exaggeration". More recent critics offer a more sanguine opinion. "Barchester Towers is many readers' favourite Trollope", wrote The Guardian, which included it in its list of "1000 novels everyone must read". Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Instead, owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see. His wife, Mrs Proudie, exercises an undue influence over the new bishop, making herself as well as the bishop unpopular with most of the clergy of the diocese. Her interference to veto the reappointment of the universally popular Mr Septimus Harding (protagonist of Trollope's earlier novel, The Warden) as warden of Hiram's Hospital is not well received, even though she gives the position to a needy clergyman, Mr Quiverful, with 14 children to support. Now listen on... Summary by Wikipedia