The Warden (Annotated)

Anthony Trollope's The Warden (1855) inaugurates the Barsetshire novels with a delicately poised study of conscience, ecclesiastical privilege, and public reform. Centered on Septimus Harding, the gentle precentor of Barchester Cathedral and warden of Hiram's Hospital, the novel examines the moral unease stirred when his income is attacked as an abuse of charitable trust. Trollope's style is human...