The Eustace Diamonds: Introduction by Graham Handley (Chronicles of Barsetshire) - Hardcover

Anthony Trollope

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679417451 ISBN 13: 9780679417453

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992

Synopsis

Anthony Trollope's celebrated Parliamentary novels, of which The Eustace Diamonds (1873) is the third and most famous, are at once unfailingly amusing social comedies, melodramas of greed and deception, and precise nature studies of the political animal in its mid-Victorian habitat. With its purloined jewels, its conniving, resilient, mercenary heroine, and its partiality for the human spectacle in all its complexity, The Eustace Diamonds is a splendid example of Trollope's art at its most assured.

About this title

About the Author:

Graham Handley is Lecturer in English in the Extra-Mural Department, University of London. He has edited Daniel Deronda (Clarendon Press) and Trollope's The Three Clerks (World's Classics). He has also written a book on George Eliot's Midlands and a critical study of Barchester Towers.

Review:

Praise for the Palliser series:

''Brilliantly evokes the atmosphere of Westminster and well describes the great political houses and clubs.'' --Chambers Biographical Dictionary

Praise for Anthony Trollope:

''Trollope will remain one of the most trustworthy . . . of the writers who have helped the heart of man to know itself.'' -- Henry James

''Of all novelists in any country, Trollope best understands the role of money. Compared with him even Balzac is a romantic.'' --W. H. Auden

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0679417451
• ISBN 13: 9780679417453
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 792