The Warden

Thông tin sách: The Warden (Kindle, 0 trang) – Books on Tape, Inc., 1993. Ngôn ngữ: Tiếng Anh.

Anthony Trollope was born in 1815 in London to a father who, though a barrister, lost his money in speculation. In 19th century England, indebtedness was taken seriously and the family fled to Belgium where Trollope's mother supported her brood by writing. In all, she wrote 114 volumes, passing her talent on to her son.

THE WARDEN, published in 1855, is the story of reform run amok. The Reverend Septimus Harding, a gentle church functionary, is made precentor of the local cathedral and warden of a charitable foundation maintaining 12 elderly church laborers. The old men are kept in very modest circumstances while the residual income goes to Harding. Even in those decorous times there was a thing called "conflict of interest."