The Prime Minister A Victorian Political Novel of Parliamentary Ambition, Aristocratic Marriage, and Financial Scandal
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
18.11.2023
Verlag
Sharp InkSeitenzahl
420
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.3 cm
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605 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-283-3216-7
The Prime Minister (1876), the fifth novel in Anthony Trollope's Palliser sequence, intertwines parliamentary ambition with the moral hazards of marriage, speculation, and social ascent. Centered on Plantagenet Palliser, now Duke of Omnium and reluctantly elevated to premier, and on the reckless Ferdinand Lopez's pursuit of Emily Wharton, the novel examines public duty against private compromise. Trollope's lucid realism, ironic restraint, and patient social observation place the work firmly within the great Victorian tradition of political and domestic fiction. Trollope wrote from unusually intimate knowledge of bureaucracy, class networks, and electoral culture: his long career in the Post Office and repeated engagement with parliamentary life gave him a practical understanding of institutions and their human pressures. Though he never entered Parliament, his failed candidacy and lifelong fascination with Liberal politics sharpened his sense of ambition, patronage, and administrative conscience, all of which inform Palliser's austere nobility. This is essential reading for those who value fiction that treats politics not as spectacle but as moral labor. Readers of Eliot, Gaskell, and Thackeray will find here a penetrating, humane study of power, character, and Victorian society.
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