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“The Barchester novels are his tales of clerical and ecclesiastical life…Barchester Towers has also got one of my favourite, favourite scenes in Trollope, which is when Miss Thorne gives a party.” Read more...
The Best Anthony Trollope Books
Francesca Simon, Children's Author
“Barchester Towers is really about the Victorian church as an institution, rather like the Civil Service, that you could have a career in … Trollope is very innovative, the first to realise that within these institutions you could create microcosms of fictional lives.” Read more...
John Sutherland, Literary Scholar