Dr. Wortle''s School

Name: Dr. Wortle''s School
Brand: Penguin Books Ltd
SKU: 9780140434040
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ISBN: 9780140434040

by Anthony Trollope

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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 196 grams

Dimensions 19.60 x 12.90 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Classic fiction: literary and general Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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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 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.

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