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“I think what he’s writing is a comedy of manners. But he’s also writing about the way the world is. He’s very alert to the changes in society, the Industrial Revolution and the declining power of the landed aristocracy, of which he was the poor cousin. He had to work. He’s the perfect person to be narrating these scenes. It is a real tapestry of Britain in the 19th century, but with a lot of things to say about our times as well. You learn a lot about life, really, and our lives, through reading someone like Trollope.” Read more...
The Best Anthony Trollope Books
Francesca Simon, Children's Author
“Barchester Towers is really about the Victorian church as an institution, rather like the Civil Service, that you could have a career in … Trollope is very innovative, the first to realise that within these institutions you could create microcosms of fictional lives.” Read more...
John Sutherland, Literary Scholar
