The Prime Minister

Name: The Prime Minister
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781455153916

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 25 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/27/2012

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, aspiring to marry into respectability and wealth, has society at his feet: 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. "Considered by modern critics to represent the apex of the Palliser novels...The novel brilliantly dissects the politics of both marriage and government."-Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature

About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was one of the most successful English novelists during the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, but he also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues as well as other topical matters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amit on July 08, 2019

In The Prime Minister Plantagenet Palliser is revealed as a man too thin-skinned for party politics but remarkable for his honesty and integrity, Trollope's Perfect Gentleman.......more

Goodreads review by Katie on August 17, 2019

An absolutely fantastic novel, and definitely one that's reignited my love of Anthony Trollope. This novel is a brilliant look at politics and marriage, moving and fascinating and engaging throughout. I'd highly recommend.......more

Goodreads review by MJ on March 08, 2019

In this novel from 1876, taken from contemporaneous political events, Prime Minister The Duke of Omnium is almost scandalised after refunding a scoundrel’s £50 election expenses when a proto-tabloid hack pens an exposé. In 2016, a series of scruple-free mountebanks can hoodwink 52% of the population......more

Goodreads review by Anastasia on February 17, 2013

I started my odyssey through Anthony Trollope’s Palliser series of political novels in early 2011, beginning with Can You Forgive Her? I said at the outset of my review of this book that the year was to be my Trollope period, an author I had hitherto overlooked. Well, I only made it as far as Phinea......more

Goodreads review by Nigeyb on February 16, 2024

More compelling Trollope storytelling in this, The Prime Minister (1876), the fifth instalment of the Palliser series. Our old favourites are joined by a scoundrel called Ferdinand Lopez, and Emily Wharton who he marries to the dismay of her friends and family. Meanwhile Planty Pal becomes the reluc......more