Chronicles of Barsetshire
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The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six novels by English author Anthony Trollope, published between 1855 and 1867. They are set in the fictional English county of Barsetshire and its cathedr
Portrait of the author, Anthony Trollope
Salisbury Cathedral
The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral
The Warden
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The Warden is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longman in 1855. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, followed by Barchester Towers.
Chronicles of Barsetshire
…of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manoeuvrings among them. A series was not planned when Trollope began writing The Warden. Rather, after creating Barsetshire, he found himself returning to it as the setting for his following works. It was not until 1878, 11 years after The…
First edition title page