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The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2)

by Anthony TROLLOPE (1815 - 1882)

XLIX. Near the Close

The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2)

LibriVox reader Nicholas Clifford calls this Trollope's best novel in his introduction to the collaborative version of this fine novel - and he is right! A wonderful study of its central character, the proud, irascible, tormented, poverty-stricken clergyman, Josiah Crawley, who pays a heavy price for his human failings when he is brought to trial for the alleged theft of a cheque for twenty pounds. The trial is the source of much grief for his long-suffering family, not least his wife Mary and daughter Grace (the novel's romantic heroine), whilst the Reverend Crawley reminds us more and more of a mad King Lear on the heath. (Summary by Steve Gough)

Listen next episodes of The Last Chronicle of Barset (version 2):
L. Lady Lufton's Proposition , LI. Mrs Dobbs Broughton Piles her Fagots , LII. Why Don't You have an It for Yourself? , LIII. Rotten Row , LIV. The Clerical Commission , LIX. A Lady Presents Her Compliments to Miss L.D. , LV. Framley Parsonage , LVI. The Archdeacon Goes to Framley , LVII. A Double Pledge , LVIII. The Cross-Grainedness of Men , LX. The End of Jael and Sisera , LXI. 'It's Dogged as Does it' , LXII. Mr Crawley's Letter to the Dean , LXIII. Two Visitors to Hogglestock , LXIV. Tragedy at Hook Court , LXIX. Mr Crawley's Last Appearance at his own Pulpit , LXV. Miss Van Siever Makes her Choice , LXVI. Requiescat in Pace , LXVII. In Memoriam , LXVIII. The Obstinacy of Mr Crawley , LXX. Mrs Arabin is Caught , LXXI. Mr Toogood at Silverbridge , LXXII. Mr Toogood at 'The Dragon of Wantly' , LXXIII. There is Comfort at Plumstead , LXXIV. The Crawleys are Informed , LXXIX. Mr Crawley Speaks of his Coat , LXXV. Madalina's Heart is Bleeding , LXXVI. I Think He is Light of Heart , LXXVII. The Shattered Tree , LXXVIII. The Arabins Return to Barchester , LXXX. Miss Demolines Desires to Become a Fingerpost , LXXXI. Barchester Cloisters , LXXXII. The Last Scene at Hogglestock , LXXXIII. Mr Crawley is Conquered , LXXXIV. Conclusion