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Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4)

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Nov 17, 2014 Jane rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I really didn’t mean to read Phineas Redux quite yet, I intended to give some other classic authors some time, after spending so much time with Trollope this year, but my fondness for Phineas and my curiosity to know what was happening in an a world full of so many characters I have come to love …..

I just had to know!

The story begins a few years after ‘Phineas Finn’ and a few months after ‘The Eustace Diamonds’. I’ve seen suggestions that you could read the two Phineas novels back to back, but i ...more

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Jan 30, 2023 Lisa (NY) rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook, classics-19th-century-earlier, 2023-tbr-shelf

Ah Phineas Finn, once again I have become absorbed in your life! Like other Trollope novels, this one took me some time to get involved in, but gradually I became mesmerized by Phineas and his various predicaments. I enjoyed the reappearance of several characters and I'm hoping that in the next book there will be more of Lady Laura. ...more

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Dec 19, 2011 Elizabeth (Alaska) rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: palliser, nineteenth-century, author-trollope

I continue to thoroughly enjoy this series. In this case, thoroughly excludes the several pages devoted to the debate in the House of Commons having to do with the disestablishment of the Church of England. (One character remarked to her friend, who was a Member of Parliament: What a pleasure! To hear a man speak for two hours and a half about the Church of England. One must be very hard driven for amusement!) Fortunately, that section is only about 10 pages long, although leading up to it takes ...more

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Mar 03, 2021 Joseph rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I forget how much I enjoy reading the Palliser series specifically, and Trollope in general, until I finish another one. Perhaps it's because of the length of the novels, which dissuades me from reading one after another after another. A small quibble. ...more

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