The Warden
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The Warden
Anthony Trollope
3 people recommended it in 3 threads, 2020–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
It's an extremely gentle book about controversy, conspiracy, and people taking a moral stand.
I think the emotional intelligence of this book makes up for the fact that nothing much happens.
Trollope presents us, realistically and convincingly, a decisive figure of modernity: the sincere idealist who, in the pursuit of illusory abstractions, (un)consciously destroys people, undermines communities with tradition and worsens the situation even for those whom he tries to help.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024? 2023 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What are some of the best books you have read in 2022? 2022 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? 2020 · 1 recommendation