The Prime Minister

Description

The Prime Minister is the fifth in Trollope's six-volume Palliser series and is a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency, and misplaced love. 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.'

№ 5 in the Palliser series.

This book has 768 pages in the PDF version, and was originally published in 1876.

Production notes: This ebook of The Prime Minister was published by Global Grey in 2020.