Dr Wortle's School - Couverture souple

Trollope, Anthony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140434046 ISBN 13 : 9780140434040

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1999

Synopsis

Book by Trollope Anthony

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Mr Peacocke, a Classical scholar, has come to Broughtonshire with his beautiful American wife to live as a schoolmaster. But when the blackmailing brother of her first husband - a reprobate from Louisiana - appears at the school gates, a dreadful secret is revealed and the county is scandalized. Ostracised by the community, the pair seem trapped in a hopeless situation - until the combative but warm-hearted headmaster of the school, Dr Wortle, offers his support, and Mr Peacocke embarks upon a journey to America that he hopes will lay to rest the accusations once and for all. A perceptive exploration of Victorian morality, Dr Wortle's School (1881) also contains echoes of Trollope's own life, and his personal affection for the vivacious Bostonian Kate Field.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) enjoyed considerable acclaim as a novelist during his lifetime, publishing over forty novels and many short stories. The Warden, the first of his novels to achieve success was succeeded by the sequence of 'Barsetshire novels' and the six brilliant Palliser novels. His novels have remained well-loved today. Mick Imlah, formerly Junior Lecturer in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, is a published poet and works at the TLS.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0140434046
• ISBN 13: 9780140434040
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256