Publisher:
Penguin Classics: 1983
"I never saw anything like you clergymen ... you are always thinking of fig hting each other" After the death of old Dr Grantly, a bitter struggle begins over who will s ucceed him as Bishop of Barchester. And when the decision is finally made t o appoint the evangelical Dr Proudie, rather than the son of the old bishop , Archdeacon Grantly, resentment and suspicion threaten to cause deep divis ions within the diocese. Trollope's masterly depiction of the plotting and back-stabbing that ensues lies at the heart of one of the most vivid and co mic of his Barsetshire novels, peopled by such ver...
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