Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 202 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Buch, Englisch, 672 Seiten, Format (B × H): 131 mm x 202 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN: 978-0-19-958778-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
The Eustace Diamonds is the third in Trollope's six-volume Palliser series, the least political, and with an extraordinary heroine in the shape of Lizzie Eustace, a lying schemer in the mould of Thackeray's Becky Sharp.
In her introduction Helen Small explores the central themes of lying and truth-telling, placing the novel within contemporary political and social debates as well as paying attention to the story, characters, and style of the novel.
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 identify aspects of the political landscape, the social significance of Trollope's account of the geography of London, and his extensive allusions to Romantic literature, song, and matters of topical interest in the late 1860s and 1870s.
New to this edition:
Introduction, select bibliography, and explanatory notes by Helen Small.
Biographical Preface outlining Trollope's life, and new Chronology.
Appendix outlining the political contextof 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.
'She liked lies…To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman'
Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond 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, Tory MP and struggling barrister, loyally assists her, to the distress of his fiancée, Lucy Morris. A pompous Under-Secretary of State, an exploitative and acquisitive American and her unhappy niece, a shady radical peer, and a brutal aristocrat are only some of the characters in this, one of Trollope's most engaging novels: part sensation fiction, part detective story, part political satire, and part ironic romance.
The Eustace Diamonds (1873) belongs to Trollope's Palliser series. Though often considered the least political of the six novels, it is a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain, ist colonial activities in Ireland and India, ist veneration of wealth, and ist pervasive dishonesty.
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.
