Dr Wortle's School

by Anthony Trollope

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Format Paperback / Softback

ISBN-10 0140434046

ISBN-13 9780140434040

Publisher Penguin Books Ltd

Imprint Penguin Classics

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 29th, 1999

Print length 256 Pages

Weight 194 grams

Dimensions 19.60 x 12.90 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

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When Mr and Mrs Peacocke arrive as employees of Dr Wortle's school, the discovery of an irregularity in their marriage tests the character of all involved. But as Dr Wortle says, "There are things which a man cannot bear ... now and again a man shall make a stand in his own defence."

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 a journey to America that he hopes will lay to rest the accusations once and for all. A perceptive exploration of Victorian morality, Dr Wortle''s School (1881) also contains echoes of Trollope''s own life, and his personal affection for the vivacious Bostonian Kate Field.

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