Trollope combines humor with robust social commentary as he seizes on the great comic potential of the predicament of the Church of England in mid-Victorian society.

This is the second in Trollope’s ‘Barsetshire’ series of novels.

This second novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire satirizes the struggle for ascendancy among the clergy in a cathedral city. The social intrigues of the many memorable characters vying for the vacant warden’s post provide a comic and ironic look at universal power struggles.

Frank Gresham and Mary Thorne are intent on marriage despite Marys seeming poverty. Only Doctor Thorne knows a secret that will make Mary acceptable to the disapproving middle-class society to which Frank belongs.

Mark Robarts, a young vicar, is newly arrived in the village of Framley. With ambitions to further his career, he seeks connections in the county's high society.

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Sir Francis disturbs the still waters of this peaceful cathedral city, and the ripples spread.

Phineas Finn is an Irishman climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers.

The Small House at Allington introduces Trollope’s charming heroine, Lily Dale, to the Barsetshire scene. Lily is the niece of Squire Dale, an embittered old bachelor living in the main house on his property at Allington.

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Anthony Trollope is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. But he was also the author of one of the most fascinating...

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The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, Trollope's best-loved and most famous work.