'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell
us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-
fashioned, and useless!'
As the Bishop of Barchester lies on his
deathbed, the question of his succession arises. Soon a pitched battle has broken out
between traditionalists and reformers, including the evangelical Dr Proudie, his
terrifying wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope. As the plotting and backstabbing
reach unholy proportions, they threaten to shake the cathedral city of Barchester to its
foundations.
Trollope's comic masterpiece is one of the best-loved novels in
his Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured the rapidly-changing provincial
society of nineteenth-century England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift
for characterisation.
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