Book description
When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock,
is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves
through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to
remain dignified while they are shunned by society, but the scandal
threatens to tear them, and the community, apart.
Drawing on his own childhood experience of genteel poverty, Trollope
gives a painstakingly realistic depiction of the trials of a family
striving to maintain its standards at all costs. With its sensitive
portrayal of the proud and self-destructive figure of Crawley, this
final volume is the darkest and most complex of all the Barsetshire novels.
Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt
barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the
family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as
a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty
novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the
greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.
