"The Wardennot only develops its moral ideas within a context of love and strong personality, it even reflects on the inadequacy of principle as a guide to behavior."Robin Gilmour

"Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthyof the writers who have helped the heart of man to know itself."Henry James

"Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic."W. H. Auden

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, Trollope explores the complexities of human motivation and social morality. The Warden is the first of the six classic Chronicles of Barsetshire novels, Trollope's best-loved and most famous work.