Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
Phineas Finn, Anthony Trollope
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Phineas Finn
The Irish Member

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 22 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006

Synopsis

Phineas Finn is an Irish MPA who is climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today.Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels, which together comprise a large, coherent composition that captures the fashions, manners, and politics of two decades of society in the high Victorian period. Trollope's unrivaled understanding of the institutions of mid–Victorian England and his sympathetic vision of human fallibility are informed by an unobtrusive irony that shines in these stories.

About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882), the author of forty-seven 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.

About Simon Vance

Simon Vance is an award-winning actor and an AudioFile Golden Voice with over fifty Earphones Awards and thirteen prestigious Audie Awards. He was named Booklist’s very first Voice of Choice in 2008 and an AudioFile Best Voice of 2009.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on January 15, 2013

Phineas Finn: The Irish Member isn't about an Irish penis. Rather, it is about a young Irish gentleman who who gets himself elected to the British House of Commons and the manner that he navigates through the very exciting legislative time period surrouding the Second Reform Bill! I bet I had you cli......more

Goodreads review by Katie on June 16, 2019

Another fantastic Trollope read, with compelling characters, rich themes and such enjoyable writing.......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on June 07, 2017

Sometimes the hardest thing you'll ever do is to do the right thing. How do you weigh the cost of the sacrifice between two objectives - both of which are dear to you, and which are mutually exclusive? Ok, so those might be bigger questions than Trollope had in mind when he wrote Phineas Finn. But t......more

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“The polished excitement that animates [Vance’s] reading comes across richly and compels the listener’s attention.” AudioFile

“This gracefully written work is perfectly read by [Vance], who successfully evokes the Victorian era.” Booklist

“The central tension in Trollope’s novel Phineas Finn is between independence and service. The title character is an Irish outsider who comes into Parliament vowing to be true to his individual conscience…Finn has to either chart his own course or allow himself to be put in harness for the good of the common effort.” New York Times

“Phineas Finn's engaging plot embraces matters as diverse as reform, the position of women, the Irish question, and the conflict between integrity and ambition...Trollope explores the realities of political life, and the clash between compromise and conviction, that is as topical today as it was in the 1860s.” Oxford University Press

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