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A variety of characters from the unwordly septimus harding the warden to the ungracious dr grantly create an early soap ope... Read More
Im not going to comment on the story but the pages and front cover of this book were a fantastic quality considering the bargain price
First this has the feel of an unfinished draft since there are some sections that are little more than sketches the preamble s... Read More
The story essentially revolves around the impact when a reformer john bold campaignsto expose the inequality of the distributio... Read More
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- This product had a total of 394 reviews as of our last analysis date on Dec 5 2022.
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Mr harding is a conscientious man neither ambitious nor particularly intelligent who does his duty as pastor to the old men and loves them
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So mr harding is a contented man
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But john bold is young and idealistic and he sees the huge disparity between the alms paid to the twelve pensioners and the stipend paid to the warden and he feels the church is misappropriating money that was intended to be spent on the poor of the town
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To archdeacon grantly representing the views of the church hierarchy so long as the twelve bedesmen are being well looked after and they are then of course the remaining money should go to provide a comfortable living for the warden for the church has a responsibility to provide good livings for all its officers especially if they happen to be personal friends of the bishop who happens to be archdeacon grantly’s father
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Mr harding has never given much thought to hiram’s original intentions when he made his bequest because mr harding is not a thinker deferring always to the archdeacon and the bishop as a good churchman should
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And this public trial by media is the book’s other great theme as we see poor mr harding caught up in a storm not of his own making publicly reviled and humiliated and portrayed as a monster of greed lining his own pockets at the expense of the poor
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Although he shows both sides of the argument fairly trollope’s sympathies are all with mr harding
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In trollope’s world bold is shown as having the misguided zealousness of youth well intended certainly but not quite understanding yet how the world works
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