Barchester Towers: Introduction by Victoria Glendinning

The second novel of Anthony Trollope’s brilliant Barsetshire series, presented here in a gorgeous hardcover edition.

Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers—struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect—actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society, and had, in other times and other guises, led to civil war and constitutional upheaval. That awareness heightens the comedy an...