The Chronicles of Barsetshire audiobooks in order

Cathedral politics in an invented English county, and much funnier than that makes it sound. Trollope is interested in ambitious clergymen, and in what people talk themselves into.

Anthony TrollopeNarrated by Timothy West reads all six · 6 books

Which order should you listen in?

Publication order. The Warden is short and works as a test drive — at under seven hours it is a fraction of the length of the ones that follow, so it costs very little to find out whether you like him.

The Chronicles of Barsetshire in publication order

  1. 1The Warden (1855)
  2. 2Barchester Towers (1857)
  3. 3Doctor Thorne (1858)
  4. 4Framley Parsonage (1861)
  5. 5The Small House at Allington (1864)
  6. 6The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)

Which recording should you buy?

Several books in this series are sold as more than one recording, with very different running times:

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