Name: The Warden
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781687462237

The Warden

Anthony Trollope

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Author Description

The Warden centers 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 daughter Eleanor. It was a highly topical novel (a case regarding the misapplication of church funds was the scandalous subject of contemporary debate), but like other great Victorian novelists, Trollope uses the specific case to explore and illuminate the universal complexities of human motivation and social morality "The Warden" by Anthony Trollope, published in 1855, is one of the classics of English literature.Over the past century and a half, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of readers have enjoyed Trollope's humorous, poignant and sharp-eyed account of the travails of Rev. Septimus Harding, a minor clergyman in the (fictional) cathedral town of Barchester.Mr. Harding is the elderly warden of Hiram's Hospital, a charity home established more than 400 years earlier for a dozen aged laborers no longer able to earn their daily bread.At the opening of the novel, he has held the post of warden for more than a decade, being paid 800 pounds a year (or the equivalent of about $90,000 in today's dollars) to oversee the operation of the home and the care of the men, a far from onerous task. Aside from having a roof over their heads and their daily meals, the men are given a small amount of spending money which, over the course of the year for the 12 men, totals something less than a tenth of what Mr. Harding receives.The dichotomy in the payments to Mr. Harding and to the men is not something the warden created nor thought much about. It resulted from various decisions made over the previous centuries. But, now, there are some minor rumbles about the efficacy of the situation.The mid-19th centur

Page Count:
165

Publication Date:
2019-08-20

Publisher:
Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US

ISBN-10:
1687462232

ISBN-13:
9781687462237