Barchester Towers

Name: Barchester Towers
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781802568875

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: Eloise Fairfax

Unabridged: 18 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 12/26/2025

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope is a witty and incisive novel of provincial life, church politics, and social ambition in Victorian England. Set in the quiet cathedral city of Barchester, the story erupts when a new bishop arrives with his formidable wife and scheming chaplain, Mr. Obadiah Slope, threatening the comfortable order presided over by the gentle clergyman Septimus Harding and his son-in-law Archdeacon Grantly. As alliances shift, scandals brew, and romantic entanglements unfold, Trollope masterfully satirizes hypocrisy, power, and reform within the Church of England. With sharp irony, rich characterizations, and deep human insight, Barchester Towers—the second in the Chronicles of Barsetshire—offers a vivid portrait of a society where morality, tradition, and ambition collide.

About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was one of the most successful English novelists during the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, but he also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues as well as other topical matters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Henry on August 11, 2024

Barchester Towers is the second in the fabulous, of six Barsetshire novels by the illustrious Anthony Trollope a man with an acute imagination which this series displays. Set in a sleepy fictitious cathedral town, in mid nineteenth century England, no other writer could excel in chronicling. Eleanor......more

Goodreads review by Paul on July 17, 2022

Victorian novels were so freaking long because the authors had absolutely no distractions! They had no Candy Crush, no cute Instagram cat videos, no ice bucket challenges, no Pokemon, they weren’t on whatsapp, didn’t have to figure out whether the dress was blue or white, never played Wordle or Mine......more

Goodreads review by Magrat on October 13, 2019

Me ha gustado mucho más de lo que esperaba, me ha atrapado casi desde el principio y las últimas 200 páginas las he devorado. La historia sigue a una serie de personajes que viven en Barchester y van a sufrir un gran cambio en sus vidas tras la muerte del obispo y la llegada de su sucesor. La narrac......more