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Very good book about Phineas Finn, an Irish lad who finds him elected to serve in the British Parliament. The story is a mix of the political innerworkings of Parliament (and how Phineas learns to maneuver his way through his tenure as a House of Commons representative) and Phineas' love life, the latter of which has different impacts on Phineas' political career.
It's a very interesting story with an emphasis the Reform Bill and Irish tenant laws that were important political issues during this ...more
It's a very interesting story with an emphasis the Reform Bill and Irish tenant laws that were important political issues during this ...more
The second of the Palliser novels is set against the background of the Reform Bill, a time of turbulence in British politics, with governments falling in succession and the old ‘rotten’ boroughs being swept away. Phineas Finn is from the Irish gentry and wins a local seat in Parliament that takes him to London and the glittering life of the wealthy political elite. The novel mixes his political career with his personal romantic attachments, and each encounter illuminates the Britain of this peri
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This book doesn't get off to a promising start. You may think to yourself, do I really want to read (a lot) about the internal workings of British Parliament during the 1860s? Rest assured Trollope fans, the story gets more interesting as it goes along. It features an interesting cast of female characters who, by virtue of the times, are not able to play a public role in politics, but who very competently maneuver behind the scenes. To my mind, the major conflict in this book is whether to be a
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