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The Last Chronicle of Barset: Introduction by Graham Handley (Chronicles of Barsetshire) Hardcover – May 23, 1995

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The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867) is the novel that Anthony Trollope considered his masterpiece.
     In the course of the last century and a half, Trollope’s county of Barset has become one of English literature’s most celebrated fictional landscapes. This sixth and final novel in the Barsetshire series revolves around the proud, hardworking, and impecunious Reverend Josiah Crawley, curate of the poor parish of Hogglestock, and his brush with disaster. Crawley stands accused of a theft, but, as he is uncertain himself as to the truth of the matter, he is unable to offer a defense and retreats into self-doubt and shame. The community is bitterly divided between those who wish to help him and those convinced of his guilt, the latter headed by Mrs. Proudie, the bishop’s forceful wife. Meanwhile, Crawley’s daughter Grace has captured the affection of Archdeacon Grantly’s son, Henry, but her father’s scandal stands in the way of their marriage. The solution to the mystery, the downfall of Mrs. Proudie, and the resolution of the fates of many other beloved characters, including Septimus Harding, Johnny Eames, and Lily Dale, bring the famous Barsetshire chronicles to a splendid conclusion. The Last Chronicle of Barset provides a brilliant example of Trollope’s ability to render a highly individual society with such detail and force that it comes to reflect every society, in any age.

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I can never bring myself to believe it, John; said Mary Walker, the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors' business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of the crown, were employed on the local business of the Duke of Omnium, who is great in those parts, and altogether held their heads up high, as provincial lawyers often do.

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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Everyman's Library; Reprint edition (May 23, 1995)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 1032 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679443665
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679443667
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.33 x 1.85 x 8.29 inches
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Vincent Poirier
5.0 out of 5 stars Why be stubborn?
Reviewed in the United States on February 21, 2008
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Trollope ends his Barsetshire cycle of novels with the longest one of the series, but the one with the weakest plot and with a most unsatisfying resolution. But that's OK and it is usual with Trollope. He is not writing a mystery novel or a complex spy thriller. His plots may well be flat and uninteresting, but his characters gain all the more.

After all, real life seldom offers us complicated situations. Whether fortune smiles or frowns on us, we understand our lot pretty well, even if we often fail to act as we should. If our lives and situations are simple, we are not. Trollope offers us brilliantly recreated complex people from which even casual readers may draw insight into their own lives.

As usual, there are no white hats and black hats. The main character, Josiah Crawley, is an unimpeachable, principled man accused of theft. He could not have done it, but looks guilty. He stubbornly refuses all charity and comes off as dour. He wears his tattered pauper's cassock with sinful pride. But he suffers greatly and so we sympathize, empathize even as we dislike him.

Lily Dale stubbornly resists her suitor Johnny Eames. One could think of her as an early feminist if she simply stated that a woman's happiness does not necessarily require sharing her life with a man. But no: she turns down Eames because she refuses to get over a previous heartbreak.

Johnny Eames is continually refused by a Lily Dale who only offers him the "F" word (i.e. friendship), so he flirts with other women but stubbornly refuses committing to any one else because of his devotion to Lily.

Archdeacon Grantly stubbornly refuses to accept that his son may marry whomever he wishes. His son, Major Grantly, stubbornly refuses to acknowledge that his father has a right to at least have feelings about his choice of a mate.

In the end, some relent some do not; material or matrimonial happiness comes to some of the characters but not to others. But true happiness comes only to those who trust and hope whether or not they realize their temporal desires.

Indeed my favorite line in the novel is spoken by Mr. Harding, the hero of the first Barset novel and a man who sees the good even in his foes. "Why should anyone weep for those who go away full of years - and full of hope?" Happiness is to trust and to hope.

Vincent Poirier, Dublin
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Leonard L. Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars Last and best of the outstanding Barsetshire novels.
Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 1998
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The Rev. Josiah Crawley, impoverished curate of Hogglestock, has been accused of stealing a check for 20 pounds. Confused about how the check came into his possession, he has no defense to offer. Mrs. Proudie, shrewish tyrant over her husband, the Bishop, is determined to hound Crawley out of his meager position. Also caught up in the problem is young Henry Grantly, son of the aristocratic Archdeacon, who is in love with the beautiful and intelligent daughter of the accused man--a match that his father bitterly opposes.
This is the main plot, but there is a wealth of subplots, each worthy of its own novel. Among these is a continuation of John Eames' wooing of Lily Dale, carried over from "The Small House at Allington."
The Last Chronicle is the longest of the Barsetshire novels--and the best, considerably better in style than the more popular "Barchester Towers." Trollope's characterizations are, as usual, superb, among the very best in all literature. He skillfully interweaves all the various strands of the novel into a very satisfying whole. And he has largely freed himself from the sometimes annoying philosophical asides to the reader that detracted from some of his earlier novels. This book merits consideration as a true masterwork.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting characterizations
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I like the continuing saga of the Warden with all the characters continuing with their life span. This author can be a bit wordy, and there is not the same humor I found in The Warden, but the Bishop's wife continues her overbearing ways and is fun to envision. There are several plots to weave and kept me interested throughout.
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Emily
5.0 out of 5 stars If you like Trollope, you'll like this.
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2019
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A more literate friend than I, once told me buy Penguin's books as they were bound better than others. I can vouch that the book has held up beautifully and, well, I just like Trollope's timeless insights into human behavior.
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Starr Morrow
5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Victorian writer
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2015
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This is a 19th century classic; Anthony Trollope is a master, and the above questions don't apply. The Victorians didn't tolerate "sexual content"--holding hands was enough to ruin a girl's reputation--and the violence in Trollope consists of foxhunts and occasional duels. I ordered the book because I'm building up my Trollope collection.
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Mary Ellen Geer
5.0 out of 5 stars Loved it!
Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016
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A wonderful novel! The last and definitely the best of Trollope's Barsetshire novels. He loves these characters, and the part at the end where he says farewell to them all is very moving.
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Joseph M. Powers
4.0 out of 5 stars last but not least...
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The novel is finely written. The reader would do well to read the first five in the series, as this calls more than most on things from the past. Trollope delights in bringing and tying together most of the major characters of his series in a satisfying stew. Septamus Harding is especially well drawn and unifies the entire series. The reader learns much more of Josiah Crawley, whose travails form the spine of the plot. All in all the reader is treated to a portrayal of Victorian society that strikes me as entirely believable.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Classic literature!
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Coming of many characters to predictable ending through well written prose.
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Didier
5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy end to a great series
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2008
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The sixth and last novel in the chronicles of Barsetshire is to my mind perhaps one of the best in the entire series, and one of the very best Victorian novels I've ever read. The main storyline centers on the impoverished curate Josiah Crawley: when he uses a cheque to pay a butcher's bill and that cheque is found to have been recently stolen from Lord Lufton, Crawley is unable to explain how it came in his possession. Crawley is sentenced to appear before the next assizes, and soon the whole of Barsetshire is divided between those who think him guilty (amongst others the immortal Mrs. Proudie), and those who believe him to be innocent.

Mixed with this are two love-stories. First of all there's the romance between Major Grantly (2nd son of Archdeacon Grantly) and Crawley's daughter Grace. They truly love each other, but the Archdeacon is horrified, and Grace herself too is unwilling to think much of love as long as her father is suspected of theft. And secondly there is the continuing story (continued from the 5th novel in the series, 'The Small House At Allington') of the romance between Lily Dale and John Eames, if romance is what one can call it: he eagerly continues to woo her and hopes to marry her, she as stubbornly continues to refuse him.

Although 'The Last Chronicle of Barset' is by far the longest book in the series, I wished it could have been longer still. Trollope never bores, in the simplest of terms he paints an utterly realistic picture of the increasing anguish of Josiah Crawley as it seems more and more likely that he is in fact guilty of theft. Crawley may be poor, but he is also extremely proud and unwilling to accept any kind of help or charity from the many people that wish him well. Trollope must have been a sort of 'natural born psychologist', because I have rarely encountered the ease with which he describes and analyzes the myriads of thoughts and emotions of his characters, and he does so in a very convincing way (there is no need here for a 'willing suspension of disbelief', everything Trollope writes is very 'believable').

I must confess that I got to know Trollope late in life but I am very glad I eventually did, and will beyond a shadow of a doubt re-read the Barsetshire chronicles at some future time, and read the Palliser-novels as well.

A final note perhaps: while reading the Barsetshire chronicles I kept ample notes of all family ties and relations between the main characters and have summarized those in powerpoint-slides (one per novel). If anyone's interested just e-mail me and I will mail them to you as soon as possible.
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caroline johnson
5.0 out of 5 stars Barchester series book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 10, 2024
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BetterNameThanBefore
4.0 out of 5 stars Very good as usual
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2012
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My review is slightly different than those already here in that I thought this was the weakest of the Barsetshire novels. This was not my opinion for the first half or two thirds (at that stage I agreed that it was one of Trollope's best)but I found the final chapters to drag considerably. However the characterisation throughout is as unimpeachable as ever and that alone elevates the novel above the competition.
I concur with Trollope own realisation that in drawing his Barset chronicles to a close with this book it had clearly become time to move on to something new.
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John Smales
5.0 out of 5 stars This is the last of the Barset novels by Trollope. I enjoy them all repeatedly.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2022
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I bought this to replace my previous copy, worn out by much travel and use! It weaves together several threads from previous novels and adds as the main theme the problems involved when a poor clergyman is accused of theft. As always with Trollope the style is engaging, the characterisation effective, and the plots realistic. This is not a thriller, it is a story of middle class life in the mid-Victorian era, but he brings both the situations and the society of the time to life, which makes the book gripping.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Hard back.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2022
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I wanted this and failed to find it in the shops. The print was good and I enjoyed the contents. Any lover of this classical series of Barsetshire novels will enjoy this one. Trollope joins up some loose ends here.
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