num_pages: 172
description: 'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ...that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ...made miserable and unsound'.Trollope's witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal - as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers - is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition. In The Warden Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the minutiae of Victorian England. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
language: English
title: The Warden
titlecomplete: The Warden
characters: Rev. Theophilus Grantly, Susan Harding, John Bold, Septimus Harding, Sir Abraham Haphazard, Eleanor Harding
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Novels, Victorian, Audiobook
ratings_count: 16304
series: Chronicles of Barsetshire
publisher: Ashgate Publishing/Trollope Society