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The Last Chronicle of Barset

Anthony Trollope · Public domain text

343,042 words · about 24 h 1 min to read

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Author
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
Language
English
Subjects
England › Social life and customs › 19th century › Fiction, Clergy › England › Fiction, Psychological fiction, Love stories, Domestic fiction, Clergy › Fiction
Length
343,042 words · about 24 h 1 min
Sections
85 reader sections · Table of contents

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Contents (85)
  1. Opening about 3 min
  2. I. HOW DID HE GET IT? about 21 min
  3. II. BY HEAVENS HE HAD BETTER NOT! about 15 min
  4. III. THE ARCHDEACON'S THREAT about 9 min
  5. IV. THE CLERGYMAN'S HOUSE AT HOGGLESTOCK about 15 min
  6. V. WHAT THE WORLD THOUGHT ABOUT IT about 11 min
  7. VI. GRACE CRAWLEY about 19 min
  8. VII. MISS PRETTYMAN'S PRIVATE ROOM about 20 min
  9. VIII. MR. CRAWLEY IS TAKEN TO SILVERBRIDGE about 26 min
  10. IX. GRACE CRAWLEY GOES TO ALLINGTON about 19 min
  11. X. DINNER AT FRAMLEY COURT about 11 min
  12. XI. THE BISHOP SENDS HIS INHIBITION about 15 min
  13. XII. MR. CRAWLEY SEEKS FOR SYMPATHY about 16 min
  14. XIII. THE BISHOP'S ANGEL about 18 min
  15. XIV. MAJOR GRANTLY CONSULTS A FRIEND about 11 min
  16. XV. UP IN LONDON about 22 min
  17. XVI. DOWN AT ALLINGTON about 23 min
  18. XVII. MR. CRAWLEY IS SUMMONED TO BARCHESTER about 17 min
  19. XVIII. THE BISHOP OF BARCHESTER IS CRUSHED about 18 min
  20. XIX. WHERE DID IT COME FROM? about 9 min
  21. XX. WHAT MR. WALKER THOUGHT ABOUT IT about 13 min
  22. XXI. MR. ROBARTS ON HIS EMBASSY about 15 min
  23. XXII. MAJOR GRANTLY AT HOME about 18 min
  24. XXIII. MISS LILY DALE'S RESOLUTION about 21 min
  25. XXIV. MRS. DOBBS BROUGHTON'S DINNER-PARTY about 25 min
  26. XXV. MISS MADALINA DEMOLINES about 16 min
  27. XXVI. THE PICTURE about 14 min
  28. XXVII. A HERO AT HOME about 15 min
  29. XXVIII. SHOWING HOW MAJOR GRANTLY TOOK A WALK about 14 min
  30. XXIX. MISS LILY DALE'S LOGIC about 10 min
  31. XXX. SHOWING WHAT MAJOR GRANTLY DID AFTER HIS WALK about 9 min
  32. XXXI. SHOWING HOW MAJOR GRANTLY RETURNED TO GUESTWICK about 13 min
  33. XXXII. MR. TOOGOOD about 31 min
  34. XXXIII. THE PLUMSTEAD FOXES about 14 min
  35. XXXIV. MRS. PROUDIE SENDS FOR HER LAWYER about 15 min
  36. XXXV. LILY DALE WRITES TWO WORDS IN HER BOOK about 30 min
  37. XXXVI. GRACE CRAWLEY RETURNS HOME about 11 min
  38. XXXVII. HOOK COURT about 16 min
  39. XXXVIII. JAEL about 18 min
  40. XXXIX. A NEW FLIRTATION about 14 min
  41. XL. MR. TOOGOOD'S IDEAS ABOUT SOCIETY about 14 min
  42. XLI. GRACE CRAWLEY AT HOME about 18 min
  43. XLII. MR. TOOGOOD TRAVELS PROFESSIONALLY about 25 min
  44. XLIII. MR. CROSBIE GOES INTO THE CITY about 19 min
  45. Chapter XLIV about 9 min
  46. XLV. LILY DALE GOES TO LONDON about 19 min
  47. XLVI. THE BAYSWATER ROMANCE about 16 min
  48. XLVII. DR. TEMPEST AT THE PALACE about 32 min
  49. XLVIII. THE SOFTNESS OF SIR RAFFLE BUFFLE about 13 min
  50. XLIX. NEAR THE CLOSE about 28 min
  51. L. LADY LUFTON'S PROPOSITION about 18 min
  52. LI. MRS. DOBBS BROUGHTON PILES HER FAGOTS about 28 min
  53. LII. WHY DON'T YOU HAVE AN "IT" FOR YOURSELF? about 18 min
  54. LIII. ROTTEN ROW about 18 min
  55. LIV. THE CLERICAL COMMISSION about 16 min
  56. LV. FRAMLEY PARSONAGE about 10 min
  57. LVI. THE ARCHDEACON GOES TO FRAMLEY about 26 min
  58. LVII. A DOUBLE PLEDGE about 19 min
  59. LVIII. THE CROSS-GRAINEDNESS OF MEN about 22 min
  60. LIX. A LADY PRESENTS HER COMPLIMENTS TO MISS L. D about 23 min
  61. LX. THE END OF JAEL AND SISERA about 23 min
  62. Chapter LXI about 22 min
  63. LXII. MR. CRAWLEY'S LETTER TO THE DEAN about 23 min
  64. LXIII. TWO VISITORS TO HOGGLESTOCK about 23 min
  65. LXIV. THE TRAGEDY IN HOOK COURT about 14 min
  66. LXV. MISS VAN SIEVER MAKES HER CHOICE about 14 min
  67. LXVI. REQUIESCAT IN PACE about 18 min
  68. LXVII. IN MEMORIAM about 18 min
  69. LXVIII. THE OBSTINACY OF MR. CRAWLEY about 15 min
  70. LXIX. MR. CRAWLEY'S LAST APPEARANCE IN HIS OWN PULPIT about 10 min
  71. LXX. MRS. ARABIN IS CAUGHT about 19 min
  72. LXXI. MR. TOOGOOD AT SILVERBRIDGE about 15 min
  73. LXXII. MR. TOOGOOD AT "THE DRAGON OF WANTLY." about 11 min
  74. LXXIII. THERE IS COMFORT AT PLUMSTEAD about 13 min
  75. LXXIV. THE CRAWLEYS ARE INFORMED about 14 min
  76. LXXV. MADALINA'S HEART IS BLEEDING about 16 min
  77. LXXVI. I THINK HE IS LIGHT OF HEART about 13 min
  78. LXXVII. THE SHATTERED TREE about 14 min
  79. LXXVII. THE ARABINS RETURN TO BARCHESTER about 18 min
  80. LXXIX. MR. CRAWLEY SPEAKS OF HIS COAT about 14 min
  81. LXXX. MISS DEMOLINES DESIRES TO BECOME A FINGER-POST about 21 min
  82. LXXXI. BARCHESTER CLOISTERS about 10 min
  83. LXXXII. THE LAST SCENE AT HOGGLESTOCK about 22 min
  84. LXXXIII. MR. CRAWLEY IS CONQUERED about 12 min
  85. LXXXIV. CONCLUSION about 9 min

The opening of I. HOW DID HE GET IT?

"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. They,--the Walkers,--lived in a great brick house in the middle of the town, gave dinners, to which the county gentlemen not unfrequently condescended to come, and in a mild way led the fashion in Silverbridge. "I can never bring myself to believe it, John," said Miss Walker.

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