Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Last Chronicle of Barset (Hardcover)

from DieFledermaus

Trollope's final Barsetshire novel has a considerably darker subject than previous entries. Josiah Crawley, the obsessively devoted, extremely poor curate from Framley Parsonage is accused of stealing. His daughter Grace loves and is loved by Major Grantly, but the accusations thwart their romanc...

from ctpress

So the six novels of Barchester have come to an end. Trollope is saying farewell with this brick - the longest of them all - assembling a lot of the characters from previous novels in the series, most notably Josiah Crawley, curate of Hogglestock - from A Small House in Allington. The main story ...

from brenzi

In closing out his wonderful Chronicles of Barsetshire series, Anthony Trollope decided to focus the narrative on a character first encountered in Barchester Towers and Framley Parsonage: the scholarly, humble, destitute and slightly mad Josiah Crawley, the Perpetual Curate of Hogglestock. He's b...

from stillatim

Not the best of the Barsetshire novels as a stand alone, but definitely up there. This is the most 'Victorian' of them, I think; multiple plot-lines that don't really rely on each other in any concrete way, but all centred around the problems of love and property. The main plot is easily the most...

from lit_chick

2007, Blackstone Audiobooks, Read by Simon Vance Barchester's well-loved characters assemble one final time in The Last Chronicle of Barset; and true to form, Trollope proves himself a worthy storyteller as he weaves the threads of this final tale. The pitiful and ornery Mr. Crawley is accused of...