The Last Chronicle of Barset
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2022
Language: eng
Subjects: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Fiction; Clergy -- England -- Fiction; Psychological fiction; Love stories; Domestic fiction; Clergy -- Fiction; Barsetshire (England: Imaginary place) -- Fiction; Fiction
Description: <p><i>The Last Chronicle of Barset</i> is the sixth, and as its title would suggest, final novel in <a href="https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/anthony-trollope">Anthony Trollope’s</a> <a href="https://standardebooks.org/collections/chronicles-of-barsetshire">Chronicles of Barsetshire</a>. Like the earlier books, it was serialized in <i>Cornhill Magazine</i>, with a hardcover edition coming out in 1867. It brings together many of the characters who had appeared in series’ earlier novels, and rounds off a number of story threads that those novels began.</p> <p>The primary storyline is concerned with the Reverend Josiah Crawley, who, as the book opens, has been accused of passing a check for twenty pounds, a check not made out to himself and whose possession he cannot account for. The accusation has significant implications for many of the other characters.</p> <p><i>The Last Chronicle of Barset</i> was made into a television series released by the BBC in 1959. Along with the other novels in the series, it was made into a radio play released by Radio 4 in the United Kingdom in the 1990s.</p>