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Title: The Warden by Anthony Trollope, Nigel Hawthorne ISBN: 0-7540-5502-7 Publisher: Chivers Audio Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 8 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: It was the beginning of an wonderful adventure . . .
Comment: I first read Anthony Trollope's book "The Warden" in 1995 at the age of 54; three years later I had finished all forty-seven Trollope novels, his autobiography, and most of his short stories. "The Warden" provides a necessary introduction to the Barsetshire Novels, which, in turn, provide a marvelous introduction to rural Victorian society, and its religious, political, and social underpinnings. However, "The Warden" is a small literary masterpiece of its own, even though the more popular "Barchester Towers" tends to obscure it. "The Warden" moves slowly, of course, but so did Victorian England; soon the reader is enveloped in a rich world of brilliantly created characters: in the moral dilemma of a charming and innocent man, Reverend Septimus Harding, who is probably the most beloved of all Trollope's characters; in the connivings of Archdeacon Grantly, who will become a significant force in the later Barsetshire novels; in Eleanor, an example of the perfect Victorian woman, a type that appears in many of Trollope's subsequent novels; and in the sanctimonious meddling of John Bold, whose crusade for fairness throws the town into turmoil. In modern terminology, "The Warden" is a "good read" for those readers with patience, a love of 19th century England, and an appreciation of literary style. Trollope's sentences have a truly musical cadence. "The Warden" was Trollope's fourth novel and his first truly successful one. It provides a strong introduction to the other five novels of the Barsetshire series, where the reader will meet a group of fascinating characters, including the Mrs. Proudie (one of Trollope's finest creations), the Reverend Obadiah Slope, and the Grantly family. The reader will soon find that Trollope's well-developed characters soon become "friends," and that the small cathedral town of Barchester becomes a very familiar and fascinating world in itself. It is a wonderful trip through these six novels. (I read all six in about three weeks.) But one must begin with "The Warden." Brew a cup of tea, toast a scone on a quiet evening, and begin the wonderful voyage through Trollope's charming Barchester. When you have finished the six novels, you may, like me, want to commence reading the Palliser series (another six novels) and follow Plantagenet and Glencora Palliser through their triumphs and travails! However, that remains another story.
Rating: 3
Summary: A fine introduction to Trollope's (prolific) writing
Comment: This is the first book in Trollope's 6 part Barchester series. While the subject matter, the intrigues surrounding clerical life in a fictional English cathedral town, might put you off, don't let it. Trollope wrote fantastic characters. While it's sequel, Barchester Towers, is even better, this is an excellent short introduction both to the series and to Trollope's writing as a whole. (Incidentally, the BBC TV series `Barchester Chronicles' is a really good adaptation of both `The Warden' and `Barchester Towers'.)
Rating: 3
Summary: Unfulfilled expectations
Comment: This book was difficult to read as it contains references to the religious life of the Anglican church in Victorian Ebgland, events and politics quite unfamiliar to the American reader. The main plot about the Rev. Harding is interesting and engaging. But while the story in itself is worthwhile Trollope presents too many rabbit trails.
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Title: Barchester Towers (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, John Sutherland, Michael Sadleir, Frederick Page, Edward Ardizzone ISBN: 0192834320 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Doctor Thorne (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Anthony Trollope, James Kincaid ISBN: 046087604X Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Last Chronicle of Barset (Everyman Paperback Classics) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton, David Cardiff ISBN: 0460872346 Publisher: Everymans Library List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Framley Parsonage (Penguin English Library) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton, Peter Miles ISBN: 0140432132 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: January, 1985 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope, Julian Thompson ISBN: 0140433252 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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