Classics & Literature
Barchester Towers is a comic novel about church politics, social ambition, marriage, gossip, and the eternal human temptation to believe that one's own interests are matters of principle. Anthony Trollope returns to the fictional cathedral city of Barchester and follows the struggle over who
Classics & Literature
Anthony Trollope mixes romance, inheritance, class prejudice, illegitimacy, money, and social convention around the fortunes of a young woman and the doctor who protects her
Classics & Literature
Trollope’s social novel follows a clergyman caught between institutional privilege, public criticism, reform, money, and personal conscience