Description: In his autobiography, Anthony Trollope called the Palliser Novels (the sprawling epic of Victorian England for which he is justly famous) "the best work of my life," adding "I think Plantagenet Palliser stands more firmly on the ground than any other personage I have created."But as sixteen years separated the first novel from the last, Trollope worried that readers would be unable to approach them as a whole. "Who will even know that they should be so read?" he complained. Solving this problem in particularly splendid fashion, Oxford reissued the Palliser Novels in an elegantly crafted hard-bound set with acid-free papers and durable binding.While the novels center around the stately politician Plantagenet Palliser, the interest is less in politics than in the lively social scene Trollope creates against a Parliamentary backdrop. His keen eye for the subtleties of character and "great apprehension of the real" impressed contemporary writers from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Henry James, and in the Palliser Novels we find him at his very best.Nowhere else did Trollope bring to life in such compelling fashion the teeming world of Victorian society and politics, and nowhere else did he create more memorable and living characters than those who populate these six volumes. As a group the Palliser Novels provide us with the most extensive and telling expos'e of British life during the period of its greatest prestige.
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Book Title: The Duke's Children
Format: Hardcover
Type: Novel
Book Series: The Palliser Novels
Author: Anthony Trollope
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press
