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A novel about an affable young man trying to do the right thing in 1865 Parliament could easily have been a bore. But Trollope's focus is on people more than politics. His penetrating insight into human behavior is so much fun - especially with the female characters. I'm looking forward to the rest of the series.
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Sometimes the hardest thing you'll ever do is to do the right thing. How do you weigh the cost of the sacrifice between two objectives - both of which are dear to you, and which are mutually exclusive? Ok, so those might be bigger questions than Trollope had in mind when he wrote Phineas Finn. But then again, maybe not.
The Goodreads description makes this sound dry, dry, dry. It is decidedly not so. It does have the backdrop of political maneuvering, and in fact the reader spends time in the Hou ...more
The Goodreads description makes this sound dry, dry, dry. It is decidedly not so. It does have the backdrop of political maneuvering, and in fact the reader spends time in the Hou ...more
I fell in love with Can You Forgive Her, my first Trollope and my first Palliser novel, and when I had to leave that book behind I knew that if wouldn’t be too long before I stepped back into Trollope’s world with the next novel in this particular sequence. The fact that this was the novel where politics came to the fore worried me a little, but it wasn’t a problem; I was pulled right into the human story by the same storyteller I had come to love as I read that first book.
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I listened to this one via Librivox, with several different readers. (Most were excellent, but it's always a bit disconcerting to hear different narrators.) I'm reading the Palliser series after enjoy the Barchester novels... and I like Trollope's language and characters very much, especially the women. (Phineas himself was a bit disappointing, but very human...) This novel was not a stand-out among his novels, but as part of the series it's an interesting window into Irish/ English political li
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The second novel in Trollope's Palliser series, this story of a young and naive Irishman's foray into London society and parliamentary machinations was a delight. As Finn matures throughout the novel, he manages to enchant both the peers and ladies of London as well as the reader.
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