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The Warden (Chronicles of Barsetshire, #1)

Anthony Trollope

Start date: February 1, 2021

Finish date: February 28, 2021

Discussion: Old School Classics, Pre-1915

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Oct 08, 2017 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: classics, vic-lit

Victober 2017 & Audiobook.

I found this book to be light on both plot and character development. Even so, I think I liked Trollope's style enough that I will read more from him. The book was quiet and sweet and enjoyable. It won't provoke you to think very much. It won't even make you feel very much. It is a simple story but it is also a nice view of the life of the English living in similar place and time. \\ ...more

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Aug 08, 2020 Tom Britz rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I found The Warden to be a very good read. I'd heard that it was boring and tedious, but I didn't find it so. I enjoyed the characters and the plot moved forward at all times. Of course it doesn't read like a modern novel in that there are many references to things and events that were current at that time or that were still being referred to and were common knowledge. I found Mr. Harding to be a stalwart and a fully fleshed out character, for that time. In today's world, and even in his time, p ...more

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Mar 24, 2020 Maggie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: classics, british, general-fiction, fiction, series

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. "A clergyman generally dislikes to be met in argument by any scriptural quotation; he feels as affronted as a doctor does, when recommended by an old woman to take some favourite dose,”

Across the nation, clergymen are having their salaries questioned. Enter Mr Harding, the gentle, kindly warden of Hiram's Hospital, which houses twelve old men, and his daughter Eleanor's lover, John Bold, who calls into question the legality of Mr Harding's salary. There is no personal animosity between them. Bol ...more

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May 08, 2009 Laura rated it it was ok

Shelves: read-2009, fiction-19th-century, british-literature, victorians, e-books

From BBC Radio 4:
The gentle Mr Harding finds his peaceful life disrupted when his would be son-in-law John Bold calls into question the large income he receives as warden of Barchester alms house. Mr Harding's daughter Eleanor is equally shocked and upset by her suitor's actions and she sets out to discover why the man she loves wants to injure someone as well respected and loved as her mild mannered father.

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