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The Prime Minister
Anthony Trollope
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Paperback. Plantagenet Palliser's fragile coalition government and troubled marriage is set against the social climbing of the unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, whose relationship with Emily Wharton generates misery and scandal. Part of the Palliser series, the novel is one of Trollope's most complex. Editor(s): Shrimpton, Nicholas. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 704 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 34. Weight in Grams: 480.
'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator, he determines to marry into respectability and wealth, much against the wishes of his prospective father-in-law. One of the nineteenth century's most memorable outsiders, Lopez's story is set against that of the ultimate insider, Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium. Omnium reluctantly accepts the highest office of state; now, at last, he is 'the greatest man in the greatest ... Read more
'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents, Ferdinand Lopez aspires to join the ranks of British society. An unscrupulous financial speculator, he determines to marry into respectability and wealth, much against the wishes of his prospective father-in-law. One of the nineteenth century's most memorable outsiders, Lopez's story is set against that of the ultimate insider, Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of Omnium. Omnium reluctantly accepts the highest office of state; now, at last, he is 'the greatest man in the greatest ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199587193
SKU
V9780199587193
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