The Warden Av Anthony Trollope

<b>The Penguin English Library Edition of <i>The Warden </i>by Anthony Trollope<br></b><br><b>''It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him ... made miserable and unsound''<br><br></b>Trollope''s witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal - as the traditional values of Septimus Harding are attacked by zealous reformers and ruthless newspapers - is a drama of conscience that pits individual integrity against worldly ambition. In <i>The Warden</i> Anthony Trollope brought the fictional county of Barsetshire to life, peopled by a cast of brilliantly realised characters that have made him among the supreme chroniclers of the minutiae of Victorian England.<br><br>The first book in the <i>Chronicles of Barsetshire.<br><br></i>The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English,