The Warden (The Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1) (Oxford Classics S.) (Immortal Classics)

by Anthony Trollope

Michael Sadleir, Frederick Page, Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator), and David Skilton (Introduction)

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"The Warden" centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter Eleanor. It was a highly topical novel (a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate), but like other great Victorian novelists, Trollope uses the specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality

  • ISBN10 0192834088
  • ISBN13 9780192834089
  • Publish Date 1 June 1998 (first published December 1955)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 27 November 2009
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Oxford University Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
  • Pages 328
  • Language English