The Warden

While The Warden is not the most exciting of The Barsetshire Chronicles, it sets the stage for what is to come in Trollope's delightful style which is wise, witty, and emotional at once. The reader here, Simon Vance, is superb and since he is British, one gets the sound of the language -- a delight only audio books can provide.

There is tranquility in a second-hand bookshop. Libraries are quiet because they must be. This is different. A kind of peace. Whatever it is, it suits me. I feel at home. It could just be the dust. Anyway, there I was kneeling in the art books, pulling them out and pushing them back. Have it, read i......more

The Warden a somewhat melancholic story of Septimus Harding, Church of England clergyman in the fictitious cathedral town of Barchester (Winchester in reality). Britain during the middle of the 19th century and (the first of the six novels in this highly acclaimed series by Anthony Trollope) this qui......more

O Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) είναι ένας τρυφερός και καλόκαρδος δάσκαλος, ο οποίος μας διδάσκει με απλότητα και δοτικότητα πάρα πολλά απο τα δρώμενα της Βικτωριανής εποχής. Απο αυτά που εξακολουθούν να παίζουν πρωτεύοντα ρόλο στην σημερινή κοινωνία της υφηλίου μας, στον σύγχρονο κόσμο της χονδροει......more

Money is the point of this very amusing and SHORT Victorian novel. Or maybe more particularly, EMBARRASSMENT about money. Our inoffensive middle aged warden hero becomes convinced he has too much of it. His son in law and various others try to convince him that even though he doesn’t do a hand’s tur......more