![]() ![]() Slope." But when he submitted his finished work, his publisher, William Longman, initially turned it down, finding much of it to be full of "vulgarity and exaggeration". Proudie were very real to me, as were also the troubles of the archdeacon and the loves of Mr. "The evil with which he is beset is as inveterate as drinking – as exciting as gambling." And, years later in his autobiography, he observed "In the writing of Barchester Towers I took great delight. "Pray know that when a man begins writing a book he never gives over," he wrote in a letter during this period. He wrote constantly, and made himself a writing-desk so he could continue writing while travelling by train. Trollope began writing this book in 1855. Among other things it satirises the then raging antipathy in the Church of England between High Church and Evangelical adherents. It follows on from The Warden, set some years later, with some of the same characters. LibriVox recording of Barchester Towers (version 2) by Anthony Trollope.īarchester Towers, published in 1857, is the 2nd novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire". ![]()
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