Barsetshire novels

novels by Trollope
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Barsetshire novels, a series of six connected novels by Anthony Trollope set in the fictional west England county of Barset. Trollope prided himself on the scope and detail with which he imagined the geography, history, and social structure of his fictional county. Nevertheless, character interested him more than description, and many characters appear in more than one Barset novel. The Reverend Septimus Harding, whose moral dilemma is the central story of The Warden (1855), reappears amid the ecclesiastical disputes of Barchester Towers (1857). The kindly title character of Doctor Thorne (1858), whose adopted daughter wins a husband in the novel, ...(100 of 165 words)