Anthony Trollope's classic novel centers on Mr. Harding, a clergyman of great personal integrity, whose charitable income far exceeds the purpose for which it was intended. On discovering this, young John Bold turns his reforming zeal toward exposing what he regards as an abuse of privilege, despite the fact that he is in love with Mr. Harding's daughter, Eleanor.

Set in the world of the Victorian professional and landed classes he portrayed so superbly, The Warden explores the complexities of human motivation and social morality.

Anthony Trollope (1815-82) is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. Brought up amidst debt and deprivation, Trollope inherited a writing ambition from his mother, and famously disciplined himself to wake up every morning at 5:30 a.m. and write 250 words every quarter of an hour. While carving out a successful career at the post office, he got his first novel published in 1847, and eventually achieved fame and fortune with forty-seven novels and some sixteen other books. His Autobiography is a satisfied and fascinating look at his life and his own character, as well as other famous literary figures and politics of the times.