Dr. Wortle's school
By: Anthony Trollope ; edited with an introduction by John Halperin.
Contributors: Halperin, John, 1941-
Series: The World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
Subjects: Americans -- England -- Fiction; School principals -- Fiction; Married people -- Fiction; Classicists -- Fiction; Extortion -- Fiction; England -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Other titles: Doctor Wortle's school.
Description: Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed and the county is scandalized. Ostracised by the community, the pair seem trapped in a hopeless situation - until the combative but warm-hearted headmaster of the school, Dr Wortle, offers his support, and Mr Peacocke embarks upon a journey to America that he hopes will lay to rest the accusations once and for all. A perceptive exploration of Victorian morality, Dr Wortle's School (1881) also contains echoes of Trollope's own life, and his personal affection for the vivacious Bostonian Kate Field.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [xxii]-xxiii.