Barchester Towers (Annotated)

Anthony Trollope's Barchester Towers, the second of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, is a richly comic study of ecclesiastical politics, social ambition, and moral temperament in a provincial cathedral city. Set after the death of the bishop, the novel follows the struggle between High Church traditionalists and reforming Evangelicals, embodied in figures such as Archdeacon Grantly, Bishop Proudie, ...