Chronicles of Barsetshire

rdf:langString Chronicles of Barsetshire

rdf:langString Chronicles of Barsetshire

rdf:langString Barchester Towers

rdf:langString Doctor Thorne

rdf:langString Framley Parsonage

rdf:langString The Last Chronicle of Barset

rdf:langString The Small House at Allington

rdf:langString The Warden

rdf:langString England, United Kingdom

rdf:langString Victorian, Literary fiction

rdf:langString English

rdf:langString Print

rdf:langString The Chronicles of Barsetshire is a series of six novels by English author Anthony Trollope, published between 1855 and 1867. They are set in the fictional English county of Barsetshire and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manoeuvrings that go on among them. A series was not planned when Trollope began writing The Warden. Rather, after creating Barsetshire, he found himself returning to it as the setting for his following works. It wasn't until 1878, 11 years after The Last Chronicle of Barset, that these six novels were collectively published as the Chronicles of Barset. By many, this series is regarded as Trollope's finest work. Both modern and contemporary critics have praised the realism of the Barsetshire county and the intricacies of its characters. However, Trollope also received criticism, particularly for his plot development and the use of an intrusive narrative voice. The series has been adapted for television in The Barchester Chronicles (1982) and Doctor Thorne (2016), and as dramatised radio programmes produced by BBC Radio 4. Author Angella Thirkell continued writing novels set in Barsetshire throughout the twentieth century.