La sobrina de un honrado médico rural se enamora de un heredero cargado de hipotecas. Una novela sobre la grandeza de ser fiel a los propios principios.Esta lúcida novela, el mejor fruto del talento de Trollope, describe la conmocion que un honrado medico rural de solidos principios, y su sobrina Mary, provocan en la clase alta rural de Barchester, representada por las ostentosas familias Gresham y de Courcy. La mansion de los Gresham esta llena de problemas, y el mayor de todos es el empeño de Frank, el heredero, en casarse con Mary. Animosa, leal y sincera, Mary no posee nada de valor salvo ella misma. Pero a su alrededor, giraran las damas Gresham y de Courcy, en sus diversos grados de esnobismo, como contraste con su valia. Los altibajos del amor entre Mary y Frank son contados con la calidez y el humor inteligente propios del mejor Trollope. El doctor Thorne -su mas querido protagonista- aporta a la trama lo mejor de si mismo: integridad y entrega. Es esta una novela sobre clase y poder; sobre privilegios y riqueza versus lealtad y sentimientos sinceros, pero sobre todo, es una novela sobre la grandeza de ser fiel a los propios principios. Anthony Trollope, destacado novelista del XIX, nacio el 24 de abril de 1815 en Londres, y murio tambien en Londres en 1882. Siguiendo la senda de su madre, a...
The first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, "The theme of The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated Trollope: the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social awareness."
The first of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, THE WARDEN explores the ethical dilemma of the Rev. Septimus Harding, the gentle, cello-playing warden of a charitable home for elderly men. Unjustly accused of receiving money to which he is not entitled, the modest and self-doubting Harding insists on resigning, feeling that his honor has been tarnished. Meanwhile, his repentant accuser (an overzealous surgeon) marries Rev. Harding's daughter, Eleanor.
This book centres on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity who is nevertheless in possession of an income from a charity far in excess of the sum devoted to the purposes of the foundation. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal to exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's d
