The Warden by Anthony Trollope is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: This is the first novel in Trollope's popular series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The novel (Trollope's fourth) was first published in 1855 and was reportedly inspired by a walk around Salisbury cathedral. The Warden tells the tale of Mr Septimus Harding, the elderly warden of Hiram's Hos This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.