num_pages: 230
description: The first of Trollope’s popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope’s most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, “The theme of The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social awareness.”
language: English
title: The Warden
titlecomplete: The Warden
characters: Septimus Harding, Susan Harding, Eleanor Harding, John Bold, Sir Abraham Haphazard, Rev. Theophilus Grantly
genres: Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, British Literature
ratings_count: 16304
series: Chronicles of Barsetshire
publisher: Modern Library