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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 American first husband appears at the school gates, their dreadful secret is revealed, and the county is scandalized. In the character of Dr Wortle, the combative but warm-hearted headmaster, who takes the couple's part in the face of general ostracism, there is an element of self-portrait. There are echoes, too, in Wortle's gallantry to Mrs Peacocke, of Trollope's own attachment to the vivacious Bostonian, Kate Field.
With its scathing depiction of American manhood, its jousting with convention and its amiable, egotistical protagonist, Dr Wortle's School (1879) is one of the sharpest and most engaging of Trollope's later novels. Biografía del autor Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.
- Autor/a Anthony Trollope Mick Imlah
- ISBN13 9780140434040
- ISBN10 0140434046
- Pàgines 256
- Fecha de publicación 08/05/2026
- Idioma Anglès
- Alto 196 mm
- Ancho 129 mm
- Peso 190 g
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Dr. Wortle's School (Penguin Classics) (Anglès)
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- Anthony Trollope Mick Imlah
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- Granta Books (2026)
- 9780140434040



