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Despite his mysterious antecedents, an unscrupulous financial
speculator, Ferdinand Lopez, aspires to marry into respectability
and wealth and join the ranks of British society. One of the
nineteenth century's most memorable outsiders, Lopez's story is set
against that of the ultimate insider, Plantagenet Palliser, Duke of
Omnium, who reluctantly accepts the highest office of state,
becoming "the greatest man in the greatest country in the world."
The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's six-volume Palliser
series and a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political
expediency, and misplaced love. Nicholas Shrimpton's introduction
explores the many strands of this complex novel, the role of the
"outsider" Ferdinand Lopez, and Trollope's great skill in
integrating the two themes of love and politics, the marriage of
Palliser and Lady Glencora and that of Emily Wharton and Ferdinand
Lopez. The book includes a compact biography of Trollope, a wealth
of useful explanatory notes, and a valuable appendix which outlines
the chronology of the Palliser novels, providing a unique
understanding of the series as a linked narrative.
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
'You might pass Eleanor Harding in the street without notice, but
you could hardly pass an evening with her and not lose your heart.'
John Bold has lost his heart to Eleanor Harding but he is a
political radical who has launched a campaign against the
management of the charity of which her father is the Warden. How
can this tangle be resolved? In the novel which is Trollope's first
acknowledged masterpiece, the emotional drama is staged against the
background of two major contemporary social issues: the
inappropriate use of charitable funds and the irresponsible
exercise of the power of the press. A witty love story, in the Jane
Austen tradition, this is also an unusually subtle example of
'Condition of England' fiction, combining its charming portrayal of
life in an English cathedral close with a serious engagement in
larger social and political issues. The Warden is the first of the
six books which form Trollope's Barsetshire series of novels. This
edition also includes 'The Two Heroines of Plumplington' - the
short story which Trollope added, just before his death, to provide
a final episode in the annals of Barsetshire. ABOUT THE SERIES: For
over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the
widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable
volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the
most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features,
including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful
notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further
study, and much more.
'To see a World in a Grain of Sand 'And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour'
William Blake wrote some of the most moving and memorable verse in
the English language. Deeply committed to visionary and imaginative
experience, yet also fiercely engaged with the turbulent politics
of his era, he is now recognised as a major contributor to the
Romantic Movement. This edition presents Blake's poems in their
literary categories and genres to which they belong: his much-loved
lyrics, ballads, comic and satirical verse, descriptive and
discursive poems, verse epistles, and, finally, his remarkable
'prophetic' poems, including the whole of his two diffuse epics,
Milton and Jerusalem. Blake's poetry is intellectually challenging
as well as formally inventive, and this edition has a substantial
critical introduction which places his ideas in the contemporary
context of the Enlightenment and the artistic reaction against its
key assumptions.
'I hated the office. I hated my work...the only career in life
within my reach was that of an author.' The only autobiography by a
major Victorian novelist, Trollope's account offers a fascinating
insight into his literary life and opinions. After a miserable
childhood and misspent youth, Trollope turned his life around at
the age of twenty-six. By 1860 the 'hobbledehoy' had become both a
senior civil servant and a best-selling novelist. He worked for the
Post Office for many years and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament.
Best-known for the two series of novels grouped loosely around the
clerical and political professions, the Barsetshire and Palliser
series, in his Autobiography Trollope frankly describes his writing
habits. His apparent preoccupation with contracts, deadlines, and
earnings, and his account of the remorseless regularity with which
he produced his daily quota of words, has divided opinion ever
since. This edition reassesses the work's distinctive qualities and
includes a selection of Trollope's critical writings to show how
subtle and complex his approach to literature really was. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
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