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Print Price: $16.50

Format:
Paperback
336 pp.
1 map, 129 mm x 196 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199665440

Publication date:
November 2014

Imprint: OUP UK


The Warden

Second Edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by Nicholas Shrimpton

Series : Oxford World's Classics

'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.'

John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is the Warden. How can this tangle be resolved? In the novel which is Trollope's first acknowledged masterpiece, the emotional drama is staged against the background of two major contemporary social issues: the inappropriate use of charitable funds and the irresponsible exercise of the power of the press. A witty love story, in the Jane Austen tradition, this is also an unusually subtle example of 'Condition of England' fiction, combining its charming portrayal of life in an English cathedral close with a serious engagement in larger social and political issues.

The Warden is the first of the six books which form Trollope's Barsetshire series of novels. This edition also includes 'The Two Heroines of Plumplington' - the short story which Trollope added, just before his death, to provide a final episode in the annals of Barsetshire.

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Readership : General readers of classic fiction, especially Victorian fiction and the novels of Anthony Trollope; students of English literature, the novel, Victorian fiction, cultural/social history, religion and religious history.

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Nicholas Shrimpton is the editor of Trollope's Palliser novel, The Prime Minister (OUP, 2011) and a new edition of Trollope's Autobiography (OUP, 2014). He is currently completing an editon of Matthew Arnold's poetry and a book on Arnold's early poetry.

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Special Features

  • The Warden inaugurated Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, introducing the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the characters of Septimus Harding, the Warden, and his son-in-law Archdeacon Grantly.
  • The only edition to include Trollope's last piece of Barsetshire fiction, 'The Two Heroines of Plumplington', the first time Trollope's Barsetshire cycle has been complete in this way.
  • Penetrating Introduction that considers the work's bold ambitions as a Condition of England novel, a charming social comedy that also seriously engages with contemporary social abuses.
  • Fascinating explanatory notes and a full textual history.
  • A substantial appendix on the Barsetshire novels and the Church, the most up-to-date survey of its kind and essential reading for all Trollope lovers.
  • The edition also includes Trollope's general introduction to the Chronicles of Barsetshire set, Trollope's Map of Barsetshire, a Biographical Preface and up-to-date Bibliography.
New to this Edition
  • The inclusion of Trollope's novella, 'The Two Heroines of Plumplington', the final Barsetshire fiction.
  • New editorial material by Nicholas Shrimpton, including introduction, note on the text, select bibliography, and much expanded explanatory notes.
  • New chronology of Trollope.
  • Biographical Preface.
  • Two appendices: Trollope's introduction to the Barsetshire Chronicles set and an invaluable appendix by Nicholas Shrimpton on the Barsetshire novels and the Church.
  • Trollope's map of Barsetshire.
  • Reset text based on the revised Chronicles of Barsetshire text prepared by Trollope in 1878.