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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; Max Egremont (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction
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: Classic Fiction | 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
The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Anthony Trollope's celebrated Parliamentary novels, of which The Eustace Diamonds (1873) is the third and most famous, are at once unfailingly amusing social comedies, melodramas of greed and deception, and precise nature studies of the political animal in its mid-Victorian habitat. With its purloined j ...Show more
The Eustace Diamonds (#3 Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassm ...Show more
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
The concluding episode in Trollope's magnificent sequence of six Barsetshire novels narrates the trials of Joseph Crawley, the obsessive rector of Hogglestovk, as he struggles to clear his name from accusations of theft. But Crawley's story is only one thread in a complex tapesty which includes favourit ...Show more
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classic Fiction
"He is so scandalously weak, and she is so radically vicious, that they cannot but be wrong together. The very fact that such a man should be a bishop among us is to me terribly strong evidence of evil days coming". When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of thef ...Show more
The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope; Helen Small (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
This illustrated version of the Last Chronicle of Barset is the final novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the "Chronicles of Barsetshire" and concerns an indigent but learned clergyman, the Reverend Josiah Crawley, the curate of Hogglestock, as he stands accused of stealing a cheque.
The Last Chronicle of Barset (#6 Barsetshire Chronicles) by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes a public scandal, sending shockwaves through the world of Barsetshire. The Crawleys desperately try to remain dignified while they are shunned by society, but the scandal threatens to tear them, and the c ...Show more
The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Classics Ser.
Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie ...Show more
The Prime Minister (#5 Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator, he determines to marry into respectability and wealth ...Show more
The Small House at Allington by Anthony Trollope; Dinah Birch (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
What a villain you are ... a villain and a poor weak silly fool. She was too good for you Engaged to the ambitious and self-serving Adolphus Crosbie, Lily Dale is devastated when he jilts her for the aristocratic Lady Alexandrina. Although crushed by his faithlessness, Lily still believes she is bound t ...Show more