Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace....

When the peaceful atmosphere of Barchester is destroyed by a scandal concerning the financial affairs of an almshouse, Septimus Harding, the kindly but unworldly warden who is responsible for the care of the establishment\"s twelve elderly residents, finds himself in conflict with his daughter\"s suitor, the zealous reformer John Bold, who unwittingl...

Classics, modern fiction, non-fiction and more. Written for secondary and adult students the Oxford Bookworms Library has seven reading levels from A1-C1 of the CEFR. Mrs Proudie, the warlike wife of the new Bishop of Barchester, brings the Reverend Slope into the Bishop\"s Palace to help dominate her husband and the local clergy....

In the third novel of the Barsetshire series, Trollope continues his study of a small cathedral city and the surrounding rural community which he presents as a microcosm of nineteenth-century England....

Anthony Trollope was well aware that the seemingly parochial power struggles that determine the action of Barchester Towers – struggles whose comic possibilities he exploits to hilarious effect – 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....

The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world\"s storytellers....

Lord Silverbridge has just been sent down from Oxford, his brother Gerald is an idler, both are constantly in debt and in trouble; even their sister, the sensible and spirited Lady Mary Palliser, is determined to marry penniless Frank Tregear....

In the fourth of the \"Palliser\" stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn\"s return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under suspicion and eventually finds himself standing trial at the Old Bailey....

Anthony Trollope\"s story of one man\"s obsessive self-deception pitted against against the enduring power of his wife\"s love, He Knew He Was Right is edited with an introduction by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics....

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires....

Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound to her unworthy former fiance for life and therefore condemned to remain single after his betrayal....

Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential circles, he agrees to guarantee a bill for a large sum of money for the disreputable local Member of Parliament, while being helped in his career in the Church by the same hand....

The first novel in Anthony Trollope\"s \"Palliser\" series, Can You Forgive Her? traces the fortunes of three very different women in an exploration of whether social obligations and personal happiness can ever coincide. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by Stephen Wall....

Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works - a profound examination of the relationship between money and love, as it shifts away from the city of Barchester to a more rural setting. Frank Gresham is bankrupt and in love. Unfortunately, the woman he loves, Mary Thorne, is illegitimate and broke....

Be irresistibly drawn into Barchester\"s clerical skirmishes as Archdeacon Grantly declares war on Bishop Proudie and his retinue in Trollope\"s most popular novel. This 1857 sequel to The Warden wryly chronicles the struggle for control of the English diocese of Barchester....