Barchester Towers

Anthony Trollope's beloved comedy of clerical politics, where a new bishop, his formidable wife, and an oily chaplain upend the quiet cathedral town of Barchester.

At a glance Wickedly funny, warmly human, and among the finest English novels of manners. Into the drowsy calm of a cathedral close arrives a new bishop, and with him a wife who… What follows is one of the most quietly delicious battles in English fiction. What it's about The second of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, Barchester Towers…

The second of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire, Barchester Towers picks up as the see of Barchester passes to Bishop Proudie, whose ambitious wife and the smooth, self-serving chaplain Mr.