Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Buch, Englisch, 704 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 204 mm, Gewicht: 477 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN: 978-0-19-958719-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's six-volume Palliser series and a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love.
Nicholas Shrimpton's introduction explores the many strands of this complex novel, the role of the 'outsider' Ferdinand Lopez, and Trollope's great skill in integrating the two themes of love and politics, the marriage of Palliser and Lady Glencora and that of Emily Wharton and Ferdinand Lopez.
Invaluable appendix outlines the political context of the Palliser novels and establishes the internal chronology of the series and the relationship between fictional and actual political events, providing a unique understanding of the series as a linked narrative.
Biographical Preface provides a compact biography of Anthony Trollope, and a Chronology charts his life against the major historical events of the period.
Explanatory Notes gloss cultural and historical allusions and the political scene.
New to this edition:
Introduction, select bibliography, and explanatory notes by Nicholas Shrimpton.
Biographical Preface outlining Trollope's life, and new Chronology.
Appendix outlining the political context of the Palliser novels and establishing the internal chronology of the series and the relationship between fictional and actual political events, providing a unique understanding of the series as a linked narrative.
Improved print appearance with an entirely reset text.
'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 country in the world'. But his government is a fragile coalition and his wife's enthusiastic assumption of the role of political hostess becomes a source of embarrassment. Their troubled relationship and that of Lopez and Emily Wharton is a conjunction that generates one of Trollope's most complex and substantial novels.
Part of the Palliser series, The Prime Minister 's tale of personal and political life in the 1870s has acquired a new topicality in the early twenty-first century.
Zielgruppe
General readers of classic literature, especially Victorian fiction and the novels of Anthony Trollope; readers of the Palliser series; students of Victorian fiction, cultural studies, politics and society.
