Doctor Thorne

Political and ecclesiastical satire are the order of the day in this six-book series set in the fictitious county of Barsetshire in rural England. Replete with enough coming-of-age love stories and tales of class woe to keep a reader happily occupied, the Chronicles of Barsetshire are the quintessential works of Anthony Trollope, one of the Victorian era’s most prolific and widely revered English novelists. Rendered with a realist’s sensibilities and a philosopher’s eye, Trollope takes on the social mores of his day while breathing fresh life into characters and plights that remain accessibly evergreen to the modern reader. Trollope takes on the rich and the poor, the nonbelievers and the Church of England, casting a wide net as he explores the lives and hypocrisies of devout clergymen and dishonest politicians, beautiful waifs and murderous aristocrats. The Chronicles of Barsetshire have become a mainstay of the Western canon, penned by a master of his craft, and newcomers to Trollope will delight in his whimsically perceptive view of relationships and the greater world.