Anthony Trollope

The Ultimate Classics Collection: Volume One is a continent-hopping, century-spanning collection of 15 essential classic novels by British, American, and Russian authors, read by a cast of incredible narrators including Stephen Fry, Jason Isaacs, Adjoa Andoh, David Rintoul, and many more.

The Warden is set in the fictional town of Barchester, Barsetshire. It takes place in an almshouse called Hiram’s Hospital. Hiram’s looks after elderly laborers and farmworkers who can’t earn a living anymore....

An eye for an eye is a justice principle that calls for a penalty commensurate with the nature of the offense. Although it is frequently used in regard to criminal law, it can also be used in other spheres of life, such as intimate partnerships and commercial transactions.

In this world of bribes, vendettas and swindling, in which heiresses are gambled and won, Trollope's characters embody all the vices....

Frank Gresham, son of the impoverished squire of Greshambury, has fallen in love with penniless Mary Thorne....

Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it....

In the last and most complex of the Barsetshire novels, many of Trollope's best-loved characters appear, but the mood of the novel is darker and more uneasy....

The Warden concerns the moral dilemma of the Reverend Septimus Harding, who finds himself at the centre of a bitter conflict between defenders of Church privilege and the reformers of the mid-Victorian period....

The spirited Lily Dale, who longs to be loved, is devastated when her fiancé, the self-interested Adolphus Crosbie, jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina....

Who owns the Eustace Diamonds? Lizzie Eustace claims that Sir Florian Eustace, her late husband, gave them to her....

Dr. Wortle's School introduces the unassuming Mr. Peacocke and his polite, newly-wed bride, as they join the teaching staff of an elite and exclusive Christian boys' school....

Narrator Timothy West brings life to the second of six works in Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire....

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief....

Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six in the Palliser series. Trollope inextricably binds together the issues of parliamentary election and marriage, of politics and privacy....

A Victorian tale concerning the proper Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their journey from southern France to Thompson Hall to celebrate Christmas with their relatives....

At the opening of The Claverings (1866) the beautiful Julia Brabazon jilts her lover Harry Clavering in order to make a marriage of convenience with a wealthy but dissolute earl. Harry leaves London to train as a civil engineer, and falls in love with his employer's daughter....

This comprehensive novel consists of three subplots which interlink to form the whole and supply a trio of targets at which Trollope aims his proselytising pen....

The first novel in Trollope’s “Chronicles of Barsetshire,” The Warden is a compassionate portrait of the gentle, thoughtful warden and precentor of Barchester Cathedral, Mr. Septimus Harding....

Phineas Finn, a handsome young man of 23, comes to England to make his fortune in parliamentary politics....

Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire....