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    Dr. Wortle's School
    Dr. Wortle's School
    Dr. Wortle's School
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    Dr. Wortle's School

    By Anthony Trollope

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1928
    Dr. Wortle's School
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    Anthony Trollope

    <p><b>Anthony Trollope</b> nació en Londres en 1815, hijo de un abogado en bancarrota y de Frances Trollope, que, tras fracasar montando un bazar en Cincinatti, escribió <i>Usos y costumbres de los americanos</i> (ALBA CLÁSICA núm. XLVIII), con la que inició una carrera literaria que le reportó fama y prosperidad económica. Anthony se educó en Harrow, Sunbury y Winchester, donde se sintió a disgusto entre los miembros de la aristocracia, y nunca llegó a la Universidad. En 1824 empezó a trabajar en el servicio de correos, donde permanecería hasta 1867. Tras siete años en Londres fue trasladado a Irlanda, y de ahí a nuevos destinos por el Reino Unido, Egipto y las Indias Occidentales.</p> <p>En 1847 publicó su primera novela, <i>The Macdermots of Ballycloran</i>, y en 1855 <i>El custodio</i>, la primera del ciclo ambientado en la mítica ciudad de Barchester (trasunto de Winchester) y en las intrigas políticas de su clero. Este ciclo lo consolidó como autor realista y le dio una gran popularidad. En 1864 inició con <i>Can You Forgive Her?</i> otro ciclo, el de las novelas de Palliser, en el que retrataría los entresijos de la vida política y matrimonial de los parlamentarios londinenses. En 1868 él mismo se presentó como candidato liberal a las elecciones, pero no fue elegido. Entre sus últimas obras cabe destacar <i>The Way We Live Now</i> (1875), una gran sátira del capitalismo. Murió en Londres en 1882.</p>

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    • 5/5
      Dr Wortle employs at his exclusive boys' prep school a Mr and Mrs Peacocke. Mr Peacocke met his American wife in St Louis and they do not socialize with the families around them. It transpires that the couple married after Mrs Peacocke's first husband died, but after 6 months said husband returned, very much still alive, only to disappear again after a day. Mr Peacocke refused to allow his wife to leave him and they came to England and have been living as husband and wife, but, of course, bigamously.Dr Wortle, to the surprise even of his wife, refuses to condemn the couple, even though his school, relationship with his bishop and personal standing all suffer. The distinction between refusing to condemn and not even acknowledging that wrong has been done (because this is more or less the position Dr Wortle takes, claiming he would have done the same) is pointed out by a fellow clergyman, Mr Puddicombe. Mrs Wortle is very amusing in her complete inability to imagine herself ever being in Mrs Peacocke's position. This being Trollope, it is all resolved happily, but I am deducting half a star for the Mary Wortle/Lord Carstairs romance, which is underwritten and completely unnecessary.
    • 4/5
      Surly but goodhearted rector, morally rigid but kind clergyman, long-suffering bishop, nosy and irritating evangelical woman, innocent young woman, love story, moral controversy in a provincial diocese, self-aware and charmingly intrusive narrator... yep, this is the Barsetshire Chronicles in about 5% of the pages. And that's a great thing! The book has some of same flaws as the Chronicles- it's sometimes needlessly repetitive and occasionally long-winded. And unfortunately many of the characters can't be fleshed out too well, since the book's only 200 pages long. Also, seeing a Trollopean character criss-cross America and [spoiler alert!] nearly engage in a gunfight is a little silly, but also great fun.
    • 4/5
      My one exposure to Trollope, and I came away quite impressed. The story deals not so much with the titular doctor's school, but with the doctor himself. Dr. Wortle is a clergyman who runs a well-thought-of school, but who finds himself in difficulty because he refuses to turn his back on some tenants of his, Mr. and Mrs. Peacocke.As full of integrity as he is of himself, Dr. Wortle does the right thing almost for the wrong reasons; it is difficult to like or even admire him by story's end, so prickly is Trollope's protrayal. But Dr. Wortle is proved out in the end, and in the (paraphrased) words of his detested acquaintance, Dr. Puddicombe, "He admires the doctor for protecting Mrs. Peacocke, because while it was wrong for a clergyman to do so under the circumstances, but right, morally and charitably."I was impressed with Trollope's conception and handling of our proud and prickly Dr. Wortle. Especially convincing are the public disputes into which he flung himself and those of his acquaintance.
    • 4/5
      “It is often a question to me whether the religion of the world is not more odious than its want of religion.” — Anthony Trollope, “Dr. Wortle's School”Jesus himself, when sounding off against hypocrites, probably would have agreed with Dr. Wortle in his comment above, for hypocrisy and an absence of grace are themes that run through Anthony Trollope's 1881 novel “Dr. Wortle's School.”Dr. Wortle operates an exclusive school for boys bound for Oxford and Cambridge, and there is no shortage of parents willing to pay the steep tuition. That is, until controversy erupts regarding an excellent teacher named Mr. Peacocke when it is discovered Peacocke and his wife may not be legally married. The couple had married in America after learning that her husband had died, but then this supposedly late husband had reappeared. Rather than separate, the couple fled to England. Then the husband's brother shows up with blackmail on his mind.With more charity than most people in his situation might possess, Dr. Wortle sends Mr. Peacocke back to America to determine whether that husband really is alive or, as Dr. Wortle suspects, now dead. Meanwhile he allows Mrs. Peacocke to remain in her residence at the school. This starts tongues wagging, and parents begin withdrawing their sons from the school.In a subplot, Lord Bracy, one of Dr. Wortle's most promising students, falls in love with the doctor's daughter.The story actually seems a bit thin, but Trollope milks it for everything it holds, while making readers consider how they might act were they in the position of Mr. Peacocke, Mrs. Peacocke, Dr. Wortle or one of the other key characters. Sometimes choosing between right and wrong, or between the lesser of evils, seems easier when it is not your choice to make.
    • 4/5
      This is not a review in any meaningful sense of the term, but I do have a few observations about this book.Despite being only a little over two hundred pages in length, the style is somewhat long-winded in places, as is often the case with Victorian novels. The letters that are reproduced may seem incredibly long to those of us more familiar with the brevity of much modern communcation, but the professional classes then had fewer distractions than we do now, and in the case of the comfortably-off Dr Wortle also had staff running around after them, so affording the time for lengthy correspondence.Dr Wortle often appears pompous and strong-willed, but he also demonstrates a quite modern liberality towards the Peacockes, the couple whose moral dilemma is the central theme of the novel. The minor sub-plot about his daughter's marriage prospects seemed to be developed rather late in the book and, to me, ended up seeming rushed and somewhat out of place. I was not aware of any particular effort to contrast her circumstances with those of the Peacockes and hence ended up wondering whether this element had been added because the author had fallen short of the number of words or chapters promised to his publisher?
    • 5/5
      trollope in love. in jamaican climes, under the starry canopy: "how beautiful a woman looks by their light, how sweet smells the air. he loved quick dances and long drinks. sudden intimacies would spring up in the sultry air. they helped him understand more of women's mysteries. they were grist for his mill. he was discovering that he had more pull with the distaff side than he had thought previously. middle age, he was in his mid-forties, brought a greater ease and fluency in his dealings with women other than his wife. there are words a man cannot resist from a woman, even though he knew them to be untrue. or the amusement of pretending to be in love, never ceased to get his interest, whether people were married, or not. people playing at caring for one another. this never failed to catch his gimlet eye.
    • 3/5
      Dr. Wortle's School, which was enjoyable to a degree but left me vaguely dissatisfied - much like eating fruit for dessert when what you wanted was a hunk o' fudge cake. DWS was pure Victorian melodrama, albeit with plenty of Trollope's relentless ridicule of the society's hypocrisy and lack of Christian charity. After the initial description of the good doctor I was prepared to dislike him intensely, no matter how benevolent his depotism. Then came the description of him as being "in no respect a wicked man, and yet a little wickedness was not distasteful to him." We should all be so lucky, to be described thusly. By the end I was wishing to have such a friend by my side, should I ever encounter misfortunes on the magnitude of those besetting the perfect Peacockes.Mr. Peacocke was almost unforgiveably a paragon, yet what he undertook on behalf of his wife was the embodiment of romance. Forget poetry, roses, sweet nothings: the labors of Peacocke eclipse them all.I was taken with Dr. Wortle himself. He was one of AT's most realistic characters, amid the sea of vividly-drawn, believable characters. The problem is, I think, that I've been spoiled by the likes of Barchester Towers and The Claverings (the latter still much underappreciated, I think), even The Way We Live Now, so breezing through an AT seemed wrong. I was prepared for heading into the wind and instead found mere breezes, delightful though they may be.All that being said: this book was another "AT lite" effort. He did uncharacteristically get on with matters right from the start, and in a mere 273 pages tied up everything neatly. No subplots, no lover's quarrels, no triangles, no legal wrangling over an estate. Would make a very nice TV movie, for the Hallmark channel or Lifetime.

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