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Phineas Redux by Anthony Trollope
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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
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
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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 Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope
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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
The Eustace Diamonds (#3 Palliser Novels) by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | 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 (#6 Barsetshire Chronicles) by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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
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Category: Classics | 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 Small House at Allington (#5 Barsetshire Chronicles) by Anthony Trollope, Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
'Of course there was a Great House at Allington. How otherwise should there have been a small house?' The Great House is home to Squire Dale, the Small House to his widowed sister-in-law, Mrs Dale, and her tow unmarried daughters, Lily and Bell. Both girls have two suitors: in Lily's case John Eames, a ...Show more
The Warden (#1 Barsetshire Chronicles) by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Fiction | Series: English Library | Reading Level: good
Anthony Trollope's "The Warden" is the first of his well-loved "Chronicles of Barsetshire", edited with an introduction and notes by Robin Gilmour in "Penguin Classics". The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a C ...Show more
The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
"The Way We Live Now" is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with an introduction and notes by Frank Kermode in "Penguin Classics". Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier who preys on dissolute nobility - using charm to tempt ...Show more