Barchester Towers
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First published in 1857, Anthony Trollope’s Barchester Towers returns to the cathedral city of Barchester, where the death of a bishop unsettles an established world of ecclesiastical privilege, social ritual and personal ambition. The arrival of the reform-minded Bishop Proudie, accompanied by his formidable wife and the calculating chaplain Mr Slope, sets competing factions against one another. At the centre of the resulting intrigues are the dignified Archdeacon Grantly, the charming Signora Neroni and the gentle Eleanor Bold, whose private affairs become entangled with the public struggle for influence.
Trollope transforms church politics into a comedy of extraordinary human variety, revealing the vanity, insecurity and genuine affection beneath institutional respectability. His narrator moves freely between satire and sympathy, exposing hypocrisy without reducing his characters to caricatures. The second novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, Barchester Towers is among the great achievements of Victorian fiction, establishing the social breadth, moral complexity and quiet comic precision for which Trollope remains celebrated.
From the book
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
— Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
On Barchester Towers
“Unquestionable rank among the few really well-written tales that every season furnishes.”
— The Examiner, contemporary review