5/20/2023 0 Comments The last chronicle of barsetTrollope excels at such nuanced portrayals of character: no one is wholly bad or whiolly good – with the possible exception of Mr Harding – and we even feel some sympathy for the dreaded Mrs Proudie. He is a masterly creation: upright and moral but also frustratingly perverse, almost proud of his straitened circumstances. However, the central story is that of Josiah Crawley, an impoverished curate who is accused of stealing a cheque, bringing him into conflict with Mrs Proudie, the Bishop’s wife. The Last Chronicle, the longest of the six, concludes the story of Lily Dale begun in The Small House at Allington, and that of Septimus Harding, the eponymous warden of the first volume. So, I did it: read all six of Trollope’s Barsetshire novels over the space of one year. The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope, 1867
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