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Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) started his writing career while working in Ireland as a postal surveyor. Travelling around the country, Trollope gained knowledge of the country and its people which proved to be useful material for his first two novels, The Macdermots of Ballycloran (1847) and... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Phineas Finn: On graduating from Trinity, Phineas Finn went to London to read law. His great friend Laurence Fitzgibbon, who was in Parliament, persuaded him to seek a seat and, on his election to represent Loughshane introduced him to London society. His first influential friend and political adviser was Lady Laura Standish, with whom he promptly fell in love. Marriage was impossible as neither had property, and she married Robert Kennedy, while he turned for sympathy to the wealthy and beautiful Violet Effingham. After fighting a duel with Lord Chiltern because of her, and refusing to vote with his party on the matter of tenant right, he was forced to resign his seat. Madame Goesler, who had long been interested in him, wished to finance him in gaining another seat, and, when he refused, offered to marry him. Phineas considered himself bound to a childhood sweetheart, and returning to Ireland he married her.
- Lady Laura (Standish) Kennedy: Daughter of the Earl of Brentford and sister of Lord Chiltern. Greatly interested in politics, she maintained a distinguished salon in London. When Phineas Finn came out of Ireland to try for a career in Parliament, she became interested in him and undertook to advise and aid him in his ambition. She soon fell in love with him, but refused to marry him as her fortune had been spent in the payment of her brother's debts, and he had none. Her ambition led her to marry Robert Kennedy, a wealthy landowner in Scotland and an M P, but her life with him was desperately unhappy and she left him, retiring to Dresden with her father. After her husband's death she returned to England, hoping at last to marry Phineas Finn, but on his marriage to Madame Goesler she became an embittered and tragic recluse.
- Laura Kennedy: Add a description of this character.
- Grace
- Mr. Monk
- Mr. Mildmay
- Mr. Turnbull
- Violet
- Mary Flood Jones
- Mr. Gresham
- Lady Baldock
- Laurence Fitzgibbon
- Madame Goesler
- Lady Glencora
- Chiltern
- Barrington Erie
- Duke
- Mrs. Bonteen
- Mrs. Bunce
- Mr. Clarkson
- Madame Max Goesler
- Mr. Palliser
- Mr. Daubeny
- Mrs. Low
- Mr. Slide
- Oswald
- Laura Standish
- Loughton
- Robert
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Ireland
- England
- Portman Square
- Killaloe
- Park Lane
- Grosvenor Place
- Dublin
- Scotland
- Downing Street
- Paris
- Limerick
- St. Bungay
- Belgium
- Vienna
- Berkeley Square
- Great Marlborough Street
- Brighton
- Ostend
- Baddingham
- Holstein
- Marylebone
- Europe
- Rome
- Galway
- Canada
- Glasgow
- Castlemorris
First Sentence edit
'I KNEW it was a duel;-bedad I did,' said Laurence Fitzgibbon, standing at the corner of Orchard Street and Oxford Street, when Phineas had half told his story.
Table of Contents edit
Volume I
I. Phineas Finn Proposes to Stand for Loughshane
II. Phineas Finn Is Elected for Loughshane
III. Phineas Finn Takes His Seat
IV. Lady Laura Standish
V. Mr. and Mrs. Low
VI. Lord Brentford's Dinner
VII. Mr. and Mrs. Bunce
VIII. The News about Mr. Mildmay and Sir Everard
IX. The New Government
X. Violet Effingham
XI. Lord Chiltern
XII. Autumnal Prospects
XIII. Saulsby Wood
XIV. Loughlinter
XV. Donald Bean's Pony
XVI. Phineas Finn Returns to Killaloe
XVII. Phineas Finn Returns to London
XVIII. Mr. Turnbull
XIX. Lord Chiltern Rides His Horse Bonebreaker
XX. The Debate on the Ballot
XXI. "Do be punctual"
XXII. Lady Baldock at Home
XXIII. Sunday in Grosvenor Place
XXIV. The Willingford Bull
XXV. Mr. Turnbull's Carriage Stops the Way
XXVI. "The First Speech"
XXVII. Phineas Discussed
XXVIII. The Second Reading Is Carried
XXIX. A Cabinet Meeting
XXX. Mr. Kennedy's Luck
XXXI. Finn for Loughton
XXXII. Lady Laura Kennedy's Headache
XXXIII. Mr. Slide's Grievance
XXXIV. Was He Honest?
XXXV. Mr. Monk upon Reform
XXXVI. Phineas Finn Makes Progress
XXXVII. A Rough Encounter
Volume II
XXXVIII. The Duel
XXXIX. Lady Laura Is Told
XL. Madame Max Goesler
XLI. Lord Fawn
XLII. Lady Baldock Does Not Send a Card to Phineas Finn
XLIII. Promotion
XLIV. Phineas and His Friends
XLV. Miss Effingham's Four Lovers
XLVI. The Mousetrap
XLVII. Mr. Mildmay's Bill
XLVIII. "The Duke"
XLIX. The Duellists Meet
L. Again Successful
LI. Troubles at Loughlinter
LII. The First Blow
LIII. Showing How Phineas Bore the Blow
LIV. Consolation
LV. Lord Chiltern at Saulsby
LVI. What the People in Marylebone Thought
LVII. The Top Brick of the Chimney
LVIII. Rara Avis in Terris
LIX. The Earl's Wrath
LX. Madame Goesler's Politics
LXI. Another Duel
LXII. The Letter That Was Sent to Brighton
LXIII. Showing How the Duke Stood His Ground
LXIV. The Horns
LXV. The Cabinet Minister at Killaloe
LXVI. Victrix
LXVII. Job's Comforters
LXVIII. The Joint Attack
LXIX. The Temptress
LXX. The Prime Minister's House
LXXI. Comparing Notes
LXXII. Madame Goesler's Generosity
LXXIII. Amantium Iræ
LXXIV. The Beginning of the End
LXXV. P. P. C.
LXXVI. Conclusion
Themes & Symbolism edit
- Bildungsroman: formation novel; focusing on the psychological and moral growth of the main character from youth to adulthood.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 859 of 1272 in 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die. (authoritative list)
Preceded by Sentimental Education, and followed by Maldoror.
This is book 2 of 6 in The Palliser Novels. (standard series)
Preceded by Can You Forgive Her?, and followed by The Eustace Diamonds.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anthony Trollope (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Virtue and Co; 2 vols. Originally published in Saint Paul's Magazine, October 1867 - May 1869.
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1869
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: Add the page count.
Publisher: Virtue and Co; 2 vols. Originally published in Saint Paul's Magazine, October 1867 - May 1869.
Country: UK
Publication Date: 1869
ISBN: Add the ISBN.
Page Count: Add the page count.
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- Dewey: 823.8
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