Sinopsis

In this, the last of the Baretshire novels, many familiar Baretshire figures appear, but the mood of the novel is darker and more uneasy.The comfortable and at times complacent life of deaneries and vicarages is depicted with Trollope's unerring eye for the most intrinsic details of human behavior, shot through with comic and masterful satire.The central drama of the book is that of Mr. Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock who, falsely accused of theft, suffers bitterly with his family. This deceptively simple plot, though, is given a twist, and the character of Mr. Crawley is more ambiguous than would at first appear. It is he himself who seems to bring about most of his suffering, and the portrait of this man.