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Dr. Wortle's School
by Trollope, Anthony
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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About This Item
Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. An early edition, undated. Rebound in full, recent leather. Internally, there is a tiny chip out of the rear end page, along with an ink marking on the front end page, but there are no other markings or inscriptions, and the pages within are neat and complete. Tightly bound and handsome. JK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Synopsis
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.
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- Title
- Dr. Wortle's School
- Author
- Trollope, Anthony
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
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- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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