
The Prime Minister
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Narrated by:
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Simon Vance
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By:
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Anthony Trollope
Audie Award Nominee, Classic, 2013
Unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, aspiring to marry into respectability and wealth, has society at his feet, with well-connected ladies vying with each other to exert influence on his behalf. Even Lady Glencora, the wife of Plantagenet Palliser, prime minister of England, supports the exotic imposter.
Palliser, respectable man of power and inherited wealth, is appalled by the rise of this man who seemingly appeared out of nowhere. When Lopez achieves his socially advantageous marriage, Palliser must decide whether to stand by his wife’s support for Lopez in a by-election or leave him to face exposure as a fortune-hunting adventurer.
This fifth installment in Trollope’s six-volume Palliser series is a brilliantly subtle portrait of love, marriage, and politics.
About the author: Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), the author of 47 novels, was one of the most prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He is best known for his series of books set in the English countryside as well as those set in the political life, works that show great psychological penetration.
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Critic reviews
Another Excellent Book in the Palliser Series
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A book that needs real pages
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Fantastic
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This is a great story. Time period of Downtown Abby, not as complex, but still good.If you like MasterPiece Theater........
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What did you like best about The Prime Minister? What did you like least?
The writing is skillful and pretty engrossing, although some of the political digressions begin to get wearisome. What was quite disappointing about this book, though, was the incredibly awful view of society that Trollope puts forth. He is saying, in pretty blatant terms, that pretty much only upper crust, well-established Englishmen, preferably blond, are the only people who are honorable or trustworthy. The villain of the piece is a dark-haired, dark-complexioned man of Portuguese extraction, suspected of being a Jew. The women are essentially all ninnies who cause vast amounts of trouble when they don't do what their superiors, i.e., fathers or husbands, tell them to do. I just have no use for this sort of novel, except, I suppose as a historical artifact.How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?
Change the plot.Which character – as performed by Simon Vance – was your favorite?
They all irritated me, through no fault of the narrator.If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Absolutely not.Any additional comments?
I was quite disappointed. I've had some acquaintance with Trollope's Barchester Towers, and I'd expected better from this novel.Depressingly retrograde politics
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