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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group

ISBN-100140434046

ISBN-139780140434040

eBay Product ID (ePID)67508

Product Key Features

Book TitleDr. Wortle's School

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1999

TopicClassics, Sagas, Literary

GenreFiction

AuthorAnthony. Trollope

FormatUk-B Format Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight7 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN00-269761

Dewey Edition21

Notes byImlah, Mick

Grade FromTwelfth Grade

Grade ToUP

Dewey Decimal823/.8

SynopsisMr 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., 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

LC Classification NumberPR5684.D6 1999