The Prime Minister

Name: The Prime Minister
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781787247451

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 762 pages
ISBN: 9781787247451
Published: 6 August 2018
Imprint: Sovereign

Anthony Trollope
Palliser
Parliamentary
Victorian
social
political
gender
sensual
awakening
love

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Description

When neither the Whigs nor the Tories are able to form a government on their own, a fragile compromise coalition government is formed, with Plantagenet Palliser, the wealthy and hard-working Duke of Omnium, installed as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The Duchess, formerly Lady Glencora Palliser, attempts to support her husband by hosting lavish parties at Gatherum Castle in Barsetshire, the family's largest country house, barely used until now.

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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