{"product_id":"9780141974286","title":"Barchester Towers","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith an essay by John Kenneth Galbraith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope.    \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarchester Towers\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Barsetshire\u003c\/i\u003e series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second book in the \u003ci\u003eChronicles of Barsetshire\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108864344304,"sku":"9780141974286","price":9.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141974286_p0.jpg?v=1763655859","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141974286","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}