The Last Chronicle of Barset (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

By Anthony Trollope

Did the Reverend Josiah Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock, really steal a check? Poverty and misfortune have so clouded his mind, even he isn’t sure. The tragic character must even worry that his accusers will ruin his daughter’s prospects for marrying the Archdeacon’s son. “I regard this as the best novel I have written,” declared the author.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble
• Release date: Mar 8, 2011
• ISBN: 9781411437746

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope was a Victorian-era English author best known for his satirical novel The Way We Live Now, a criticism of the greed and immorality he witnessed living in London. Trollope was employed as a postal surveyor in Ireland when he began to take up writing as a serious pursuit, publishing four novels on Irish subjects during his years there. In 1851 Trollope was travelling the English countryside for work when was inspired with the plot for The Warden, the first of six novels in what would become his famous The Chronicles of Barsetshire series. Trollope eventually settled in London and over the next thirty years published a prodigious body of work, including Barsetshire novels such as Barchester Towers and Doctor Thorne, as well as numerous other novels and short stories. Trollope died in London 1882 at the age of 67.