Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers, Trollope’s most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire.

With his typical and well-known ironic wit, Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor as they face a power shift in the cathedral town of Barchester. The antics and ambitions of the unpopular new bishop Dr. Proudie, his meddling wife, and the hypocritical Obadiah Slope culminate in a very unexpected and satisfying ending.