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Title: The Duke's Children (PENGUIN CLASSICS) by Anthony Trollope, Dinah Birch ISBN: 0-14-043344-9 Publisher: Penguin USA Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 Format: Paperback List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Victorian generation clash.
Comment: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. This must be understood or nothing wonderful can come of this tale. The last installment of Trollope's Palliser series begins with this sad development. Long Victorian faces grow even longer with grief. Now ex-Prime Minster, Plantagenet Palliser must cope alone with the foibles of his three adult children. As the reader discovers, their expectations are not consistent with their father's ideas. Typical of Anthony Trollope, the story unfolds leisurely for 600+ pages. Regardless, the quiet little story urges one to keep turning the pages. 19th century British politics, social customs, and romantic attitudes seem quaint, even amusing, by today's standards. Much as the writings of Jane Austen, reconciling marriage and money drive the story. Trollope's elegant style is a delight. The reader is lulled into a quiet sense of relaxation. No great truths or insights to report, but good downtime reading. Appreciate the novel as you would a fine painting or a delicate antique tea set. If one seeks a pleasant diversion from the noise, clatter, and electronics of modern life this is recommended reading. Relish the experience. ;-)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Duke's Children?
Comment: Rascals and confusion, Trollope wrote with all the elements that excited that of readers from the Victorian Era, and that can also excite ones from our age.
Rating: 5
Summary: A battle between generations ends the Palliser series.
Comment: One of the brightest lights of the Palliser novels is extinguished in the first chapter with the death of the Duchess Glencora. Bereft of her vivacious influence the grieving Duke, already reserved and traditional, sinks into stodginess. Far worse than this, he is left with three young adult children whom he fails completely to understand. To say that they cause him many heartaches is to greatly understate the situation.
The eldest, heir to the title, Lord Silverbridge has already been booted out of Oxford for a silly prank. Now he goes into horse racing with questionable companions and winds up as the victim of a major scandal, which costs his father a huge sum. Next he deserts his father's choice for his bride to woo an American girl whose grandfather was a laborer.
The Duke's daughter, Mary, wants to marry a commoner, son of a country squire, a good man, but with no title and little money. The outraged Duke is adamantly opposed to such a match, but Mary vows to marry no other and is constantly miserable.
The youngest son, Gerald, who plays a relatively minor role in the novel, is forced to leave Cambridge because he was away without permission attending a race in which his brother's horse was running. Later he loses several thousand pounds in a card game.
The Duke bemoans his children's foolishness and their lack of respect for the traditions of their fathers. He pays for their mistakes, but vigorously opposes the two unwise marriages. But although he is a strict, authoritarian man, he is also a compassionate and loving father. Will he yield to the fervent desires of his rebellious offspring? The resolution of this clash of generations brings the Palliser novels to a satisfying conclusion.
As always, it is Trollope's great gift of characterization which makes THE DUKE'S CHILDREN an outstanding novel. From the outwardly firm but inwardly doubting Duke to the very sincere but frequently erring Silverbridge to the tragic Lady Mabel Grex, who has the young heir in her grasp only to let him slip away, these are well-rounded figures with whom the reader lives intimately and comes to understand thoroughly. With the perfectly depicted ambience of upper-class Victoriana as the setting, this novel is an absorbing work of genius.
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Title: The Prime Minister (PENGUIN CLASSICS) by Anthony Trollope, David Skilton ISBN: 014043349X Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Phineas Redux (Oxford World's Classics (Paperback)) by Anthony Trollope, John C. Whale, F. S. L. Lyons, T. L. B. Huskinson ISBN: 0192835599 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope, W. J. MacCormack ISBN: 0460874977 Publisher: Everymans Library Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: The Eustace Diamonds (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope, W. J. McCormack, Blair Hughes-Stanton ISBN: 0192834665 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Can You Forgive Her (The Penguine Trollope, vol. 17) by Anthony Trollope, Stephen Wall ISBN: 0140430865 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1975 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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