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Description

This is the first of the six Barchester novels. Septimus Harding is an unworldly, cello-playing clergyman, beloved by the pensioners of Barchester's almshouse, of which he is warden. When ecclesiastical and political skulduggery engulf him, he is pulled in two directions.

First Sentence

The Rev. Septimus Harding was, a few years since, a beneficed clergyman residing in the cathedral town of-; let us call it Barchester.

Series

This is book 1 in the Barsetshire Chronicles series.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Anthony Trollope (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. David Skilton
  2. Joanna Trollope (Introduction)
 

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