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The Warden

Anthony Trollope

Book Overview: 

Anthony Trollope sets the scene for his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire with this short novel about Septimus Harding's challenged ecclesiastical seat as the warden of Hiram's Hospital. To make things more interesting, the man doing the challenging - John Bold - also happens to be courting Mr. Harding's daughter, Eleanor.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .n't you getting all you hoped for, ay, and more than you hoped for? Wouldn't each of you have given the dearest limb of his body to secure that which now makes you so unthankful?"

"We wants what John Hiram left us," said Handy. "We wants what's ourn by law; it don't matter what we expected. What's ourn by law should be ourn, and by goles we'll have it."

"Law!" said Bunce, with all the scorn he knew how to command—"law! Did ye ever know a poor man yet was the better for law, or for a lawyer? Will Mr Finney ever be as good to you, Job, as that man has been? Will he see to you when you're sick, and comfort you when you're wretched? Will he—"

"No, nor give you port wine, old boy, on cold winter nights! he won't do that, will he?" asked Handy; and laughing at the severity of his own wit, he and his colleagues retired, carrying with them, however, the now powerful petition.

There is no help for spilt milk; and Mr Bunce coul. . . Read More

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There is tranquility in a second-hand bookshop. Libraries are quiet because they must be. This is different. A kind of peace. Whatever it is, it suits me. I feel at home. It could just be the dust. Anyway, there I was kneeling in the art books, pulling them out and pushing them back. Have it, read i

Money is the point of this very amusing and SHORT Victorian novel. Or maybe more particularly, EMBARRASSMENT about money. Our inoffensive middle aged warden hero becomes convinced he has too much of it. His son in law and various others try to convince him that even though he doesn’t do a hand’s tur

O Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) είναι ένας τρυφερός και καλόκαρδος δάσκαλος, ο οποίος μας διδάσκει με απλότητα και δοτικότητα πάρα πολλά απο τα δρώμενα της Βικτωριανής εποχής. Απο αυτά που εξακολουθούν να παίζουν πρωτεύοντα ρόλο στην σημερινή κοινωνία της υφηλίου μας, στον σύγχρονο κόσμο της χονδροει

The Warden a somewhat melancholic story of Septimus Harding, Church of England clergyman in the fictitious cathedral town of Barchester (Winchester in reality). Britain during the middle of the 19th century and (the first of the six novels in this highly acclaimed series by Anthony Trollope)
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