Phineas Finn

Name: Phineas Finn
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781910660652

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 622 pages
ISBN: 9781910660652
Published: 15 February 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Anthony Trollope
Victorian
social
political
gender
sensual
awakening
love
relationship
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Description

Finn is the only son of a successful Irish doctor who sends him to London to become a lawyer. His academic achievements were modest, but he made many influential friends. One of them, a politician, Barrington Erle, suggests that he stand for Parliament in the coming election. At first, the idea seems absurd. Finn is supported solely by a modest allowance from his father, but a stroke of luck clears his path.

Author

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) spent his days as a Post Office surveyor and his early hours at the novel — a clerk's discipline that produced an English county of clergy and a later London of money. Barchester Towers is the church as weather: preferment, gossip, a bishop's wife. The Way We Live Now is the same eye on speculation and the social lie. He wrote without apology for the method. Church, vote, and marriage sit in the same air.

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