The Eustace Diamonds (Trollope, Penguin) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140438327 ISBN 13: 9780140438321

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1994

Synopsis

Revolves around the cunning but extremely beautiful Lizzie Greystock who, having entrapped Sir Florian Eustace in marriage, now finds herself widowed and uncommonly wealthy. Unperturbed by her loss she is determined to hold on to the Eustace family heirlooms, despite the legal opposition.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

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 the Author:

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) grew up in London. He inherited his mother's ambition to write and was famously disciplined in the development of his craft. His first novel was published in 1847 while he was working in Ireland as a surveyor for the General Post Office. He wrote series of books set in the English countryside as well as those set in the political life, works that show great psychological penetration. One of his greatest strengths was his ability to re-create in his fiction his own vision of the social structures of Victorian England. The author of forty-seven novels, he was one of the most prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0140438327
• ISBN 13: 9780140438321
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624