Barchester Towers

<p>Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of<i> Barchester Towers</i> &#150; struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect &#150; actually went to the heart of mid-Victorian English society and had in other times and other guises led to civil war and constitutional upheaval.<br><br>That awareness heightens the comedy and intensifies the drama in this magnificent novel and it transforms the story of a fight for ascendency among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral into something fundamental and universal. <i>Barchester Towers</i> is the second of Trollope's six Barchester Novels all published by Everyman's Library.</p>