Framley Parsonage
Anthony Trollope Audio Book

The fourth of the ‘Barsetshire Chronicles’, ‘Framley Parsonage' was published in 1860 to wide acclaim and has always been one of Trollope’s most popular novels. In it, the values of a Victorian gentleman, the young clergyman Mark Robarts, are put to the test. Through a combination of naivety and social ambition, Robarts is compromised and brought to the brink of ruin.

Trollope tells his story with great compassion, offsetting the drama with his customary humour. Like all the Barsetshire novels, it is an extraordinarily evocative picture of everyday life in nineteenth-century England.

Anthony Trollope (1815–82) published his first novel in 1847. It was in 1855 that he published ‘The Warden', the first of his most famous series, the Barsetshire novels. The series continued with ‘Barchester Towers', 'Doctor Thorne', 'Framley Parsonage', 'The Small House at Allington' and ‘The Last Chronicle of Barset'.