An impoverished, proud curate stands accused of stealing a cheque, and the scandal grips all Barsetshire as his fate and his daughter's love hang in the balance.
Books mentioned in The Last Chronicle of Barset (5)
The Odyssey by Homer: “There were there two odd volumes of Euripides, a Greek Testament, an Odyssey, a duodecimo Pindar, and a miniature Anacreon.”
Iliad by Homer: “He had a mutton chop at home that evening, and spent his time in endeavouring to read out loud to himself certain passages from the Iliad;--for he had bought a Homer as he returned from his office.”
Lycidas by John Milton: “He knew "Lycidas" by heart; and as for Thumble, he felt quite sure that Thumble was incompetent of understanding a single allusion in that divine poem.”
Samson Agonistes by John Milton: “Can any picture be more dreadful than that? Go on, my dear. Of course you remember Milton's Samson Agonistes.”
Hamlet by William Shakespeare: “As he thought of this he quoted to himself against himself Hamlet's often-quoted appeal to the two portraits.”