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Palliser Series Book 1: Can You Forgive Her?
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 1
Duration 27h 34m
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...
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Palliser Series Book 3: The Eustace Diamonds
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 3
Duration 23h 58m
The third and least political novel of the Palliser series, The Eustace Diamonds concerns the beautiful pathological liar Lizzie Greystock. Determined to marry into wealth, Lizzie snares the ailing Sir Florian Eustace and quickly becomes a widow. Despite the brevity of their marriage, Lizzie still inherits according to the generous terms of Sir Flo...
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Palliser Series Book 2: Phineas Finn
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 2
Duration 22h 33m
Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels, which together comprise...
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Palliser Series Book 4: Phineas Redux
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 4
Duration 23h 5m
His beloved wife having died in childbirth Phineas Finn finds Irish society and his job as a poorhouse inspector dull and unsatisfying particularly after the excitement of his former career as a Member of Parliament Back in England the Whigs are determined to overturn the Tory majority in the Parliament of the United Kingdom Since Finn had once bee...
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Palliser Series Book 6: The Prime Minister
Author: Anthony Trollope
Format: Online
Author Anthony Trollope
Narrator Simon Vance
SeriesPalliser Series, Book 6
Duration 25h 6m
Unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, aspiring to marry into respectability and wealth, has society at his feet: well-connected ladies vying with each other to exert influence on his behalf. Even Lady Glencora, the wife of Plantagenet Palliser, prime minister of England, supports the exotic imposter. Palliser, respectable man of power...
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