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The Warden

The Warden
Anthony Trollope

The Warden, published in 1855, is the first book in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series of six novels. It was his fourth novel.

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“What on earth could be more luxurious than a sofa, a book, and a cup of coffee?… Was ever anything so civil?”

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Source: The Warden

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“The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of _____; let us call it Barchester. Were we to name Wells or Salisbury, Exeter, Hereford, or Gloucester, it might be presumed that something personal was intended; and as this tale will refer mainly to the cathedral dignitaries of the of the town in question, we are anxious that no personality may be suspected.”

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Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 1, first lines

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“He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.”

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Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 3

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“The tenth Muse who now governs the periodical press.”

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Source: The Warden (1855), Ch. 14

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