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Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope; Simon Dentith
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's ...Show more
Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Phineas Finn, The Irish Member by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
'It is no good any longer having any opinion upon anything' After the death of his wife, the handsome politician Phineas Finn returns from Ireland to the parliamentary fray. In his absence the political and social world has subtly changed, parties and policies no longer fixed and advancement dependent u ...Show more
Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
In the fourth of the 'Palliser' stories, Trollope follows Phineas Finn's return to the dangerous world of Westminster politics. When his political rival is murdered, Phineas is thrown under suspicion and eventually finds himself standing trial at the Old Bailey. The situation is complicated by the prese ...Show more
Rachel Ray by Anthony Trollope; P. D. Edwards (Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
And that was all that was then said about Luke even between Rachel and her mother. How could they speak about him? Mrs. Ray also believed that he would be no more seen in Baslehurst; and Rachel was well aware that such was her mother's belief, although it had never been expressed. What could be said bet ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Terri Ann (EDT) Anthony; Geus Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
Popular and prolific, Anthony Trollope wrote 47 novels as well as dozens of short stories that provide fascinating insights into Victorian life, behavior, and morals. A careful observer of people and places, Trollope created realistic, unsentimental depictions of everyday life that offer enduring entert ...Show more
South Africa, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint) by Anthony Trollope
Category: Non-Fiction
Excerpt from South Africa, Vol. 2 of 2 The distance from Newcastle to Pretoria is 207 miles. About 20 miles north from Newcastle we crossed the borders of what used to be the Transvaal Republic, but which since the 12th August last, -1877, - forms a separate British Colony under the dominion of Her Maje ...Show more
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics
Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are ve ...Show more
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'I do not know that one ought to be surprised at anything.' The Duke of Omnium is overwhelmed by the death of his vivacious wife, Lady Glencora. Once the British Prime Minister, he is now in sole charge of his three wilful children. Lord Gerald has been sent down from University; Lord Silverbridge ha ...Show more
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope; Max Egremont (Introduction by)
Category: Classics
The final volume in the Pallisers novels Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, ho ...Show more
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Following the death of her husband Sir Florian, beautiful Lizzie Eustace mysteriously comes into possession of a hugely expensive diamond necklace. She maintains it was a gift from her husband, but the Eustace lawyers insist she give it up, and while her cousin Frank takes her side, her new lover Lord F ...Show more