Barchester Towers

Name: Barchester Towers
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781461812616

Author: Anthony Trollope

Series: Chronicles of Barsetshire #2

Narrator: Margaret Hilton

Unabridged: 21 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/13/2011

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

First, a warning: If you haven't read any Trollope, start with The Warden; it's the first in a series of which Barchester is second. Next, a rather shocking warning: Trollope may be as addictive as a soap opera. It has plenty of the right ingredients-archly drawn characters and plots that enmesh the listener in the daily ups and downs of those characters' lives. Of course, the great crevasse that divides your average daytime soap from Barchester Towers is the elegance and skill of the writer and the witty invention from which he draws his charming and classic fantasies.

About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was one of the most successful English novelists during the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, but he also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues as well as other topical matters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Melindam on November 23, 2024

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.” A visit to Victorian England & indulging myself with another re-read of the delightful Barchester Towers. A new bishop is coming to town (the fictional Barchester in the fictional Barsetshire) greatly disturbing the stagnant wate......more

Goodreads review by Henry on August 11, 2024

Barchester Towers is the second in the fabulous, of six Barsetshire novels by the illustrious Anthony Trollope a man with an acute imagination which this series displays. Set in a sleepy fictitious cathedral town, in mid nineteenth century England, no other writer could excel in chronicling. Eleanor......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 17, 2022

Victorian novels were so freaking long because the authors had absolutely no distractions! They had no Candy Crush, no cute Instagram cat videos, no ice bucket challenges, no Pokemon, they weren’t on whatsapp, didn’t have to figure out whether the dress was blue or white, never played Wordle or Mine......more

Goodreads review by °°°·.°·..·°¯°·._.· ʜᴇʟᴇɴ Ροζουλί Εωσφόρος ·._.·°¯°·.·° .·°°° on March 16, 2019

«Οι Πύργοι του Μπάρτσεστερ»,είναι μια ανθρώπινη εκδήλωση συμπεριφορών και συναισθημάτων. Πύργοι γεμάτοι ρομαντισμό και άρωμα παλιών και πολλών αιώνων που μολύνθηκαν απο κάποιες τραγωδίες και ακολουθούν την κλίμακα αξιών της ανθρώπινης ζωής. Όσο εξελίσσεται η πλοκή και η δράση των πρωταγωνιστών μας α......more