Oxford World's Classics: Barchester Towers - Tapa blanda

Dr. Proudie gains the bishopric attached to Barchester’s cathedral when the incumbent bishop dies, raising his horrible wife to a position of power as soon as he accepts the appointment. When Mrs. Proudie’s protégé, the loathsome hypocrite Obadiah Slope, becomes the Bishop’s new chaplain, the denizens of Barchester consider it a call to battle. The second novel in the enduringly popular “Chronicles of Barsetshire” series, “Barchester Towers” satirizes church politics in 1850’s England.

As young adult, Trollope endured seven years of poverty in the General Post Office in London before accepting a better - paying position as postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland in 1841. The years in Ireland formed the basis of his second career delineating clerical life in small cathedral towns.