num_pages: 418
description: Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope. Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
language: English
title: Barchester Towers
titlecomplete: Barchester Towers (Chronicles of Barsetshire #2)
genres: Classics, British Literature, Novels, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Literature, Audiobook, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 16341
series: Chronicles of Barsetshire
publisher: Oxford University Press