The Eustace Diamonds (Oxford World's Classics) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199537690 ISBN 13: 9780199537693

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2008

Synopsis

Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to a fabulous necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law's solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - and contrived love-affairs. Her cousin, Frank Greystock, loyally assists her, much to the distress of his fiancée, Lucy Morris. A pompous Under-Secretary, a neurotic American society belle, a brutal knight, and a shady Scottish radical peer are only some of Trollope's engaging and revealing characters in this melange of detective story, political novel, and ironic romance. The Eustace Diamonds (1873) is the third in the Palliser series. Though often considered the least political of the six, it is a highly revealing study of Victoran Britain, its colonial activities in Ireland, India, and Australia, and its veneration of wealth.

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Trollope (1815-82) was one of the most widely enjoyed and prolific novelists of the nineteenth century. His books include the great Chronicles of Barsetshire, of which Barchester Towers is the second volume. Trollope worked for the Post Office for much of his adult life, combining postal and literary business as he travelled around the British Empire. He has been credited with the creation of the distinctive British pillar box.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0199537690
• ISBN 13: 9780199537693
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 832
• Editor: McCormack W. J.
• Illustrator: Hughes-Stanton Blair