Phineas Finn : the Irish member / Anthony Trollope ; edited with an introduction by Jacques Berthoud ; with illustrations by T.L.B. Huskinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882.

Contributor:

Berthoud, Jacques, 1935-2011.

Series:

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Palliser novels

The Centenary edition of Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels

The World's classics

Oxford paperbacks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

London (England)--Fiction.

London (England).

Ireland--Fiction.

Ireland.

Palliser, Plantagenet (Fictitious character)--Fiction.

Palliser, Plantagenet (Fictitious character).

Legislators--Fiction.

Legislators.

England--London.

Genre:

Fiction.

Series.

Political fiction.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 356, 383 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1982.

Summary:

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 exposé of British life during the period of its greatest prestige.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxvi-xxvii).

ISBN:

0192815873

9780192815873

019520896X

9780195208962

OCLC:

8345507