The Trollope Society, London, 1989, 1st thus, hb, no dw (as issued), 8vo, brown cloth, black label, fine. Introduction is by John Rae.. First Edition. Hardcover.

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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.

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Bookseller: Glenbower Books (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 5640
Title: Dr Wortle's School
Author: Trollope Anthony
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 1870587065
ISBN 13: 9781870587068
Publisher: The Trollope Society, London,
Place of Publication: London
This edition first published: January 1989
Keywords: FICTION
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