TY - BOOK AU - Trollope,Anthony TI - Barchester Towers T2 - Everyman's library SN - 0679405879 : AV - PR5684 .B3 1992 U1 - 823.8 20 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - Knopf, Distributed by Random House KW - Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place) KW - Fiction KW - Clergy KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N1 - Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers -- struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect -- actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. Thai awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama in this magnificent novel and it transforms the story of a fight for ascendency among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral into something fundamental and universal; Includes bibliographical references (p. xxiv-xxv) UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random056/91053197.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0410/91053197.html ER -