Dr Wortle's School
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0140434046
ISBN-13
9780140434040
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint
Penguin Classics
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 29th, 1999
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
194 grams
Dimensions
19.60 x 12.90 x 1.70 cms
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When Mr and Mrs Peacocke arrive as employees of Dr Wortle's school, the discovery of an irregularity in their marriage tests the character of all involved. But as Dr Wortle says, "There are things which a man cannot bear ... now and again a man shall make a stand in his own defence."
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 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.
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