Barchester Towers

Barchester Towers is Anthony Trollope's 1857 novel about a struggle for influence in the cathedral city of Barchester. The arrival of a new bishop and the ambitions of his chaplain disturb an established social order. Eleanor Bold's position as a widow draws several suitors into the same network of church affairs and personal calculation. Trollope turns these rivalries into comedy without losing sight of conscience and independence. The novel is the second of the Chronicles of Barsetshire, following The Warden.