It turned out that there was another e-edition, in fact also put out by Project Gutenberg and called “eBook #3409”, that was much more carefully prepared. It turned out that this e-edition was rife with typographical errors! After enduring one or two chapters, I went back to the Web and did a more thorough search. Let the following story of my experience be cautionary! I followed my usual procedure, going to the “Online Books Page” to locate an “e-edition” the only one listed was a Gutenberg text, “Etext #2432”. If you are interested in trying the downloading idea, I will just give you one word of advice: Take some care in selecting your electronic “edition”. I know that some will call me neurotic, but if doing such a simple thing can add to my enjoyment….

So what I did this time was to write a short computer program which stripped off the descriptive chapter headings, leaving only “CHAPTER I”, “CHAPTER II”, etc. I even do not like chapter headings, since I feel they often “spoil” some of what is about to transpire. As some of you may know, I highly dislike “spoilers”, anything that gives away the plot that is to come. Among the various advantages in this approach, I found a new one in the case of _Barchester Towers_. Some of my reviews give detailed steps on how to do this. with public-domain materials, usually downloadable from the Internet for free) I often read books on my “Palm Pilot” handheld PDA. If you’ve read my other book reviews, you might recall that when possible (i.e. It would be hard for me to say which of these two novels I prefer, since it is an “apples and oranges” comparison. _Barchester Towers_ presents more of a panoramic scene, parading before you quite a number of characters, some sinister, some hilarious, and some others too complex to describe easily. _The Warden_ is more focussed on one individual (Mr. These two novels are rather different, however. My review of _The Warden_ is available online. And if you read _The Warden_, and like it, I think you will like _Barchester Towers_ as well. If you set out to read _any_ of these books, you should start with the first - _The Warden_ - and read them in the above order, so that the developments in the earlier books are not revealed to you, prematurely, in the later ones.

My acquaintance so far has been with the first two novels of the “Chronicles of Barsetshire” series. (Can anyone successfully challenge my finding of Trollope’s uniqueness?) Trollope has a “Palliser” series, which I really know nothing about (yet!).

By this I mean that there is some continuity, from one novel in the series to the next, in plot and in characters. As far as I know, Anthony Trollope is the only novelist in the accepted canon of great writers, to have written his books (well, at least some of them) in series.

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