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Phineas Finn Volume 2

Author
Anthony Trollope
Read by
Eloise Fairfax
Language
English
Length
11 hours 48 minutes
ISBN
9781802569025
Published
15 September 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Anthony Trollope
  • Victorian
  • social
  • political
  • gender
  • sensual
  • awakening
  • love
  • relationship
  • romance

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Description

Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope follows an ambitious young Irishman who enters the turbulent world of Victorian politics after becoming a Member of Parliament. Charming and idealistic, Phineas navigates the corridors of power in London, torn between his principles, career ambitions, and complicated romantic entanglements with women from different social spheres. As he grapples with patronage, scandal, and shifting party loyalties, Trollope offers a keenly observed portrait of parliamentary life, class dynamics, and personal integrity. A compelling blend of political realism and emotional depth, Phineas Finn is a central novel in the Palliser series and a masterful exploration of ambition and identity in 19th-century England.

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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