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  • The Prime Minister

    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 with each other to exert influence on his behalf - even Palliser's own wife, Lady Glencora. But ... Read more

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  • The Law and the Lady

    Despite the grave misgivings of both their families, Valeria Brinton and Eustace Woodville are married. But before long the new bride begins to suspect a dark secret in her husband's past and when she discovers that he has been living under a false name, she determines to find out why he is concealing his true identity from her. Soon she must endure an even greater shock: the revelation that her ... Read more

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  • Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England

    Edited by Barbara Dennis, David Skilton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Victorian World
    First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman ... Read more

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  • The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel

    Edited by David Skilton ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
    The Victorian period was the age of the novel and critics at the time clearly saw the importance of prose fiction.First published in 1993, this anthology contains over fifty original extracts from contemporary critics on the early and mid-Victorian novel. Arranged thematically, the volume covers such topics as literary form, the social responsibility of literature, issues of politics and gender, ... Read more

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  • Framley Parsonage

    Mark Robarts is a clergyman with ambitions beyond his small country parish of Framley. In a naive attempt to mix in influential circles, he agrees to guarantee a bill for a large sum of money for the disreputable local Member of Parliament, while being helped in his career in the Church by the same hand. But the unscrupulous politician reneges on his financial obligations, and Mark must face the ... Read more

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  • The Moonstone

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    Extracted from a Family PaperI address these lines—written in India—to my relatives in England.My object is to explain the motive which has induced me to refuse the right hand of friendship to my cousin, John Herncastle. The reserve which I have hitherto maintained in this matter has been misinterpreted by members of my family whose good opinion I cannot consent to forfeit. I request them to ... Read more

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  • The Queen of Hearts

    WE were three quiet, lonely old men, and SHE was a lively, handsome young woman, and we were at our wits' end what to do with her. ... Read more

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  • The Duke's Children

    “The Duke’s Children” is a novel about sorrow and loss, and about a parent’s pained discovery that our children inevitably grow to love us less than we love them.It offers us a tale of age and maturity: Palliser is retired now, his parliamentary career behind him, and his tenure as prime minister viewed with a haunting sense of failure.Most shockingly of all, his beloved wife Lady Glencora is dead ... Read more

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  • The Warden

    The Chronicles of Barsetshire

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.' John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a political radical who has launched a campaign against the management of the charity of which her father is the Warden. How can this tangle be resolved? In the novel which is Trollope's first acknowledged ... Read more

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  • The Eustace Diamonds

    Series series Timeless Classic
    In this novel, the characters of Plantagenet Palliser, his wife Lady Glencora and their uncle the ailing Duke of Omnium are in the background. The story centres on Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace and is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an ... Read more

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    Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope is a carefully prepared Bookjack digital edition of classic literary fiction. The book is presented for clear ebook reading, with metadata and structure designed for discoverability in a modern digital catalogue. Readers will find a work shaped by character, setting, conflict, style, and the lasting pleasures of storytelling, making it a useful addition for anyone ... Read more

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