Dr Wortle's School
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2005
Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140434040 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140434046 |
| Author: | Anthony Trollope, Mick Imlah |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2005 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 129mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) enjoyed considerable acclaim as a novelist during his lifetime, publishing over forty novels and many short stories. The Warden, the first of his novels to achieve success was succeeded by the sequence of ‘Barsetshire novels’ and the six brilliant Palliser novels. His novels have remained well-loved today. Mick Imlah, formerly Junior Lecturer in English at Magdalen College, Oxford, is a published poet and works at the TLS.
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