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The Warden (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

by Anthony Trollope (Author), David Skilton (Contributor), Edward Ardizzone (Illustrator) "THE Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of-; let us call it Barchester ..." (more)

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks; New edition edition (2 April 1998)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0192834088
ISBN-13: 978-0192834089
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Welcome to Barsetshire, 20 Jun 2005

By	Paul D "Paul" (Darwen, Lancashire) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This is the first novel in the Barsetshire sequence, in which Trollope introduces us to the titular Warden, Mr Harding, and his circle. His elder daughter is married to the son of his old friend the Archbishop, who is paranoid about the authority of the Church being undermined. Thus, when the Warden's younger daughter falls for a man who is investigating whether the Warden is entitled to his stipend from the Wardenship, much intrigue ensues.

The novel is basically simple and straightforward, focussing on a small number of well-drawn characters. Trollope presents his characters in a realistic manner, far removed from the overt sentimentality of Charles Dickens, who is lampooned under the name Mr Popular Sentiment. In place of this sentimentality, Trollope gives us warmth and humour, allowing us to enter into the lives of these people, always aware that there are few people so bad as to be without a spark of good, nor so good as to be without a suspicion of ill-humour. Nevertheless, the Warden himself is mostly a sincere, upright man, entirely without the deviousness which often characterises such people in novels of this period.

This is a short novel, but it opens the world of Barsetshire - a welcoming world full of human, and humane, people.

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4.0 out of 5 stars "He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.", 6 Feb 2008

By	Mary Whipple (New England) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

For many years, the kindly and unambitious Rev. Septimus Harding has been warden of Hiram's Hospital, a residence for poor men who have nowhere else to go, a place where they may live comfortably, get a small stipend from the estate of Mr. Hiram, and live out their lives in peace. The warden has also been living at peace, until John Bold, a young reformer, questions why Mr. Harding, as warden, gets eight hundred pounds a year for accepting the title of warden, which does not require him to do much else. The bedesmen living in the hospital get only shillings, and Bold wonders whether the real intentions of Hiram's bequest to establish the hospital more than four hundred years ago, are being honored in the present.

In this first of the Barsetshire Chronicles, published in 1855, Trollope establishes the gently satiric tone and mood which pervade the series. Here he focuses largely on the church, its clergymen, and their roles in society, showing Rev. Harding to be a man of honor and trust (though a bit too comfortable and unimaginative to ask the hard questions) and contrasting him with Archdeacon Grantly, his son-in-law, who enjoys the power and perks of his position and feels that the world owes him whatever what he can get from it. The stultifying church hierarchy sees its role as almost royal, above the fray and dedicated to sustaining itself.

The conflict which arises when John Bold and Tom Towers, an arrogant newspaperman, become allies in the investigation of the warden's position becomes even stronger when some of the bedesmen are encouraged to demand one hundred pounds a year. Rev. Harding becomes the humiliated subject of editorials, pamphlets, and even a novel showing the "abuses" of his power. Dr. Pessimist Anticant, the pamphleteer, is thought to be a parody of Thomas Carlyle, and the novelist, Mr. Popular Sentiment, is thought to be Charles Dickens. The fact that John Bold, who started it all, is in love with the warden's daughter creates further complications.

Trollope is a delightful writer whose style is to entertain the reader while raising some thoughtful questions. Though he takes his writing seriously and creates memorable characters behaving, as a rule, like real people, he does not take himself seriously, nor does he feel the need to be a social reformer. His humor and amiability give a freshness to novels like this one, which, despite its age, is amusing and perceptive. His later novels, like The Way We Live Now, are far more complex--but just as much fun. n Mary Whipple

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5.0 out of 5 stars A small perfectly formed jewel, 30 Nov 2005

By	A. Gordon "annettego" (London) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Trollope isn't known for short books but here is one.

Clever, witty, compasionate and incisively intelligent about the power base of organised religion and the newsprint media of the day. Trollope writes such complex characters and has them interact with each other clearly highlighting and observing what happens when you put the substance of one personality in the same room with another personality.

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