The Eustace Diamonds

Name: The Eustace Diamonds
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781787247444

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 716 pages
ISBN: 9781787247444
Published: 6 August 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

Anthony Trollope
Victorian
social
political
gender
sensual
awakening
love
relationship
romance

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Description

In this novel, the characters of Plantagenet Palliser, his wife Lady Glencora and their uncle the ailing Duke of Omnium are in the background. The story centres on Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace and is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological delight in lying, even when it cannot benefit her.

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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