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    <body><![CDATA[This book was a slow starter. If I friend hadn't sent this to me, I would have never gotten past the first 50 of its 700 pages! But I persisted and it was worth it. I love the title character for his honestly, integrity and willingness to do what is right, no matter how great the cost to himself. We...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42483771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Taking a break after book one.  My heart breaks for Lady Laura, who should be Prime Minister.  Phineas, I'm trying to like you.  Maybe if I were with you I'd be captivated by your good looks.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[To be honest, I liked this book much more than I thought I would.  Despite the hackneyed 19th century plot of a plucky young man trying to make his way up in society, Trollope's writing offers fascinating insights into the British parliamentary system, its complex and uncomfortable relationship with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31281477">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Phineas Finn seems destined to &quot;good fortune&quot; as he ascends from Irish pverty to the heights of the English Parliament and friendships with Lords and Ladies.  He changes women with rapidity and seems to suffer nothing for it. In the end, though he is back in Ireland with his plain Irish la...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80161939">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This dramatic primary season inspired me to re-read Phineas Finn.  It is a great reminder that this isn't the first time that a charismatic political novice can achieve great position quickly. (okay, Phineas isn't Prime Minister yet, but he accomplished alot in this book!)<br/><br/>Trollope's Vict...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21052333">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Being in Trollope's wry company for 700 pages is a very good thing!  I very much enjoyed the gentle satire of our central character's rise in London.  Funny, wise, and very entertaining.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux far more than any others in the Palliser novels. I felt much more involved in the characters, and you cannot help but love Phineas himself. ]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The handsome Phineas Finn's political and romantic entanglements are explored with zest when he becomes an Irish member of the House of Commons. How will the Reform Bill fare? And will Lady Laura Standish, Violet Effingham, Mary Flood Jones or Marie Goesler win his hand?]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[The second in Trollope's Palliser series, <em>Phineas Finn</em> follows the budding political career of a young Irishman trying to make a life for himself in London's high society.  Intrigues and moral dilemmas abound as Phineas is forced to choose between love and money, between devotion to an old way of li...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27369263">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The novel is set against the background of the Reform Bill of 1867, and focuses on an Irish Member of the British House of Commons; in it Trollope explores the relations between the distinct elements of 'the United Kingdom'. Phineas has a personal chronicle which largely dominates the political calendar and it is noteworthy that Trollope wrote Phineas Finn at the same time as Gladstone's accession to power and the momentous consequences for Ireland that followed. Phineas Finn (1869) is the second of the Palliser novels, published between 1864 and 1880. As a group they provide us with the most extensive and telling expose of British life during the period of its greatest prestige.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Steeped in British politics, and a study in the lives of women of various strata.]]></body>
    
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  <read_at>Fri Sep 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A truly delightful and engrossing book.  I found that the first Palliser novel, Can You Forgive Her?, dragged in places, but this one did not.  I am not even particularly interested in politics, and the novel drew me in and made me care about the ins and outs of what was going on.  And Phineas himse...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68408955">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Phineas Finn is my favorite Palliser series character.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My favorite of all Trollope's books.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Will I ever finish this? ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Kathie has this one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another great read, but I wish that it had more of the characters from the first book in the series.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Slow start this time. But provides slice of insight into politics at the time. Phinneas is from humble Irish beginnings (as was the author) and makes his way into London to serve the British government. One of the highlights is the number of informed and clever women whom he seeks out for guidance. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5856426">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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