The Warden introduces us to the lives of some of the most beloved characters in all literature.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with g
Newly restored from the original manuscript and nearly a third longer than the existing editions: one of the finest novels from one of the greatest English novelists is finally available in the form h
Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury esta
'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!' Trollope'
'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money' Doctor Thorne, considered by Trollope to be the best of his works, is a telling examination o
'It was so hard that the pleasant waters of his little stream should be disturbed and muddied ... that his quiet paths should be made a battlefield: that the unobtrusive corner of the world which been
'He was sickened also with all these lies. His very soul was dismayed by the dirt through which he was forced to wade. He had become unconsciously connected with the lowest dregs of mankind, and would
"What a villain you are ... a villain and a poor weak silly fool. She was too good for you" Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts
"He is so scandalously weak, and she is so radically vicious, that they cannot but be wrong together. The very fact that such a man should be a bishop among us is to me terribly strong evidence o
Opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the u
