This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manuvrings that go on among and between them.The novels in the series are:The Warden (1855)Barchester Towers (1857)Doctor Thorne (1858)Framley Parsonage (1861)The Small House at Allington (1864)The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manuvrings that go on among and between them.The novels in the series are:The Warden (1855)Barchester Towers (1857)Doctor Thorne (1858)Framley Parsonage (1861)The Small House at Allington (1864)The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices.The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manuvrings that go on among and between them.The novels in the series are:The Warden (1855)Barchester Towers (1857)Doctor Thorne (1858)Framley Parsonage (1861)The Small House at Allington (1864)The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
The Way We Live Now / UmwalzungenErster Teil von Trollopes GesellschaftsromanLondon 1870. In der Metropole stoen Gegensatze aufeinander. Verarmende Adelige sehen sich mit aufstrebenden Geschaftsleuten konfrontiert. Skrupellose Emporkommlinge konkurrieren gegen honorige Kaufleute. Die Mannerwelt wird durch selbstbewusste Frauen aufgeschreckt. Mit Witz und Einfuhlungsvermogen schildert Anthony Trollope das Aufeinandertreffen zahlreicher Figuren und deren Konflikte und illustriert damit die Gesellschaft seiner Zeit.
Barchester Towers concerns the leading clergy of the cathedral city of Barchester. The much loved bishop having died, all expectations are that his son, Archdeacon Grantly, will succeed him. Owing to the passage of the power of patronage to a new Prime Minister, a newcomer, the far more Evangelical Bishop Proudie, gains the see. His wife, Mrs. Proudie, exercises an undue influence over the new bishop, making herself as well as the bishop unpopular with most of the clergy of the diocese. Her interference to veto the reappointment of the universally popular Mr. Septimus Harding (Protagonist of Trollopes earlier novel, The Warden) as warden of Hirams Hospital is not well received, even though she gives the position to a needy clergyman, Mr Quiverful, with 14 children to support.Even less popular than Mrs. Proudie is the bishops new chaplain, the hypocritical and sycophantic Mr. Obadiah Slope, who decides it would be expedient to marry Hardings wealthy widowed daughter, Eleanor Bold. Slope hopes to win her favour by interfering in the controversy over the wardenship. The Bishop or rather Mr. Slope under the orders of Mrs. Proudie, also orders the return of the prebendary Dr. Vesey Stanhope from Italy. Stanhope has been in Italy recovering from a sore throat for 12 years and has spent his time catching butterflies. With him to the Cathedral Close come his wife and their three adult children. The younger of Dr. Stanhopes two daughters causes consternation in the Palace and threatens the plans of Mr. Slope. Signora Madeline Vesey Neroni is a disabled serial flirt with a young daughter and a mysterious Italian husband, whom she has left. Mrs Proudie is appalled and considers her an unsafe influence on her daughters, servants and Mr. Slope. Mr. Slope is drawn like a moth to a flame and cannot keep away. Dr. Stanhopes son Bertie is skilled at spending money but not at making it; his sisters think marriage to rich Eleanor Bold will help.The Old Dean of the Cathedral having died, Mr. Slope campaigns to become Dean but Mr. Harding is offered the preferment, with a beautiful house in the Close and fifteen acres of garden. Mr. Harding considers himself unsuitable and with the help of the archdeacon, arranges that Mr. Arabin be made Dean. With the Stanhopes return to Italy, life in the Cathedral Close returns to normal and Mr. Harding continues his life of gentleness and music.
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.
