Barchester Towers (Part 1)

Anthony Trollope

⏱ 8 minVictorian classic

Part 1 of 2. A bishop dies, and his see falls to a henpecked weakling, which is to say, to his tyrant wife and his oily chaplain Mr Slope. Trollope's beloved comedy of cathedral politics.

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