The Warden
Author: Anthony Trollope
It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied …that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been allotted to him …made miserable and unsound’.Trollope’s witty, satirical story of a quiet cathedral town shaken by scandal – as the traditional values of Septimus Harding ar….Read More
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