A review by jmenasche
The Warden by Anthony Trollope

3.0

It was left in a will a long time ago that the hospital should be for 12 men in need of charity and they would receive x amount of money, the rest going to the warden. Many years later, the 12 men get the same amount of money but the amount going toward the warden has increased to 800 a year. The warden's future son-in-law brings the case to a lawyer, the warden is slandered in a newspaper, the warden's daughter asks her soon-to-be betrothed to discontinue his lawsuit, he does, the warden leaves the wardenship position anyway because he isn't sure the situation is just—end of story.

I like Victorian novels, I like the way they are written and the glimpse they give into living life then. This was a fine book if not a tad dull, but I wanted to read it because the other books in this series seem more interesting.