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Deze romanserie beschrijft de levens en politieke carrières van een rijke aristocratische familie die zich door de complexiteit van de 19e-eeuwse Britse samenleving beweegt. Centraal staan de ambitieuze bezigheden van een prominente staatsman en zijn dynamische vrouw, wier persoonlijke levens verweven raken met parlementaire aangelegenheden. De verhalen verkennen thema's als macht, huwelijk, maatschappelijke plicht en de vaak moeilijke compromissen die worden gesloten in de jacht op een publieke functie. Het biedt een boeiend inzicht in de wereld van invloed en de persoonlijke offers die ambitie met zich meebrengt.

The Eustace Diamonds
Phineas Redux
Phineas Finn, The Irish Member
Can You Forgive Her?
The Prime Minister
The Duke's children

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    Can You Forgive Her?

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    Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe. Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey and so finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. She is increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation a situation contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora, forced by sagacious heads to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent her true love, the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald, from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day

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    Phineas Redux

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    In the fourth Palliser novel, Anthony 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. schovat popis

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    The Prime Minister

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    Plantagenet Palliser's fragile coalition government and troubled marriage is set against the social climbing of the unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, whose relationship with Emily Wharton generates misery and scandal. Part of the Palliser series, the novel is one of Trollope's most complex.

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    The Duke's children

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    Designed for both general readers and students of English literature at all levels, this edition of Trollope's novel contains an introduction, notes and comments on the text.

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