Barsetshire novels
novels by Trollope
Barsetshire novels, a series of six connected novels by Anthony Trollope set in the fictional west England county of Barset. Trollope prided himself on the scope and detail with which he imagined the geography, history, and social structure of his fictional county. Nevertheless, character interested him more than description, and many characters appear in more than one Barset novel. The Reverend Septimus Harding, whose moral dilemma is the central story of The Warden (1855), reappears...