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The Barsetshire Chronicles - All 6 Books in One Edition: The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, Framley Parsonage, The Small House at Allington & The Last Chronicle of Barset

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The Chronicles of Barsetshire are widely regarded as Anthony Trollope's most famous literary works. [4] [29] In 1867, following the release of The Last Chronicle of Barset, a writer for The Examiner called these novels "the best set of sequels in our literature". [30] Even today, these works remain his most popular. Modern critic Arthur Pollard writes: "Trollope is and will remain best known for his Barsetshire series", [4] while P. D. Edwards offers a similar insight: "During his own lifetime, and for long afterwards, his reputation rested chiefly on the Barsetshire novels". [29] This is the second volume in the Barsetshire Chronicles by Anthony Trollope. As compared to the first book, this is more humorous, more satirical and more people centric. Some lines were very funny. Trollope is a keen observer of the absurdities and little foibles of human nature. There is an inherent simplicity in this writing that gives the books a more comforting and a “friendly” feeling. There are again some topics related to Church politics that I would have been clueless against had it not been for the helpful endnotes.

La narración es entretenida y ágil, cargada de una ironía cercana a la sátira que a mi personalmente me ha conquistado, aunque reconozco que el narrador y su interés por hablar directamente al lector no siempre eran de mi agrado... Also the insight into his characters is wonderful: the most memorable from this novel are Mr Slope, Mrs Proudie, Signora Neroni & Archdeacon Grantley. Very gratifying and even touching themes of repentence, redemption, forgiveness, humility, pride, charity... I like this for its humor, its characterizations and its accurate depiction of mid-Victorian provincial life. Trollope knew how to write a story, and I think this is his best series.

Publication Order of Chronicles of Barsetshire Books

Mr Francis Arabin, vicar of St Ewold, Old Wykehamist, Fellow of Lazarus College and former professor of poetry at the University of Oxford. He is a former follower of John Henry Newman and adheres to the High Church faction of the Anglican Church. Arabin is sought out by Dr Grantly as an ally against the evangelical faction of Bishop Proudie, his wife and chaplain Obadiah Slope. This novel is about two things modern readers will not care two hoots about : 19th century church politics, and whether the rich young widow will marry a nice clergyman or not. In the first case, readers are expected to know the difference between an archdeacon, a dean, a precentor, a canon, a chaplain and a bishop and why a chaplain could offend the entire town of Barchester by preaching a sermon. There are heavy duty paragraphs all about church etiquette. There was a very mild civil war going on at the time between High Church types and Low Church types. It’s all very rarefied. It is like watching some gentle pushing and shoving between butterfly collectors about whether a new species has been discovered in Uruguay or not. Some readers are going to be eye rolling.

Mrs Proudie, a proud, vulgar, domineering wife, who promotes evangelical causes such as Sunday schools and is zealous in eliminating high-church rituals. Sutherland points out that in the early chapters Trollope describes the Proudies as intending to spend as much time as possible in London, leaving the field clear for Slope to act on his own in Barchester with the action easily contained in a single-volume novel: in Chapter IV, Slope thinks to himself that, in the Proudies' anticipated absences in London, "he, therefore, he, Mr Slope, would in effect be bishop of Barchester". But when Trollope resumed the composition of Barchester Towers in May 1856, planning the eventual three-volume novel as a result of the unexpectedly increasing sales of The Warden in late 1855, he expanded the text by keeping the Proudies in Barchester and introducing a number of new characters who had not appeared in the earlier chapters - the Stanhopes, Mr Arabin, and the Thornes among others. I am reading Trollope on a Delphi collection of his works, where lots of highlights and notes are located for all his books, I have read so far, if interested in getting a taste of his books, without any spoilers. Till we can become divine we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower."Timothy West’s narration is superb, fantastic, sublime. I have listened to other audiobooks read by West, but this is his best. It cannot be improved upon. His intonations are marvelous. He captures, through the nflections of his voice, the characters’ personalities perfectly-–the meek, the obsequious, the brash, the kind and the generous. The narration is outstanding. If I mention how much I like one intonation, you’ll think this one is the best, but they are all very well performed. Five stars for the audiobook narration by Timothy West. I did decrease the speed to 90%. L'evoluzione delle vicende poggia comunque su una struttura molto solida e i mutamenti si succedono in modo realisticamente ponderato, senza quei colpi di scena 'gratuiti' e forzati che troviamo nei romanzetti prettamente commerciali. Trollope is always brilliant in painting unlikeable characters, and, in doing so, making us see their flaws and their various vices in ourselves. In Barchester Towers, Trollope adds to this gift something that is much more covert in his other works: a rich use of comedy and humor. Barchester Towers is, above all, a very funny book, a satire, and one that shows Trollope balancing well the individual, the social, and the narcissistic desire for power and position. While his other novels have a humor that is more covert, Barchester Towers is rare in Trollope’s oeuvre in that it will actually cause one to laugh aloud: one wonders why—if not from realizing that such a treatment did not agree with his vision of the novelist’s duties—Trollope abandoned the outrageously comic in his subsequent work.

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