Phineas Finn: The Irish Member
By Anthony Trollope
Read by Simon Vance
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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.
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Summary
Summary
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.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
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Reviews
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An apealing character
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As I have commented on other reviews of Trollope's books, his characters and dramatic situations tend to be narrowly focused. You will encounter people in financial distress in his books, but you will almost never encounter the kind of poverty found in the pages of Dickens, or other writers of that era. None of the writers of this era believed in brevity, and the verbosity in Trollope is often repetitive. Phineas Finn, for all that, is one of Trollope's most appealing creations. He is a lower middle-class Irishman elected to the British Parliament as a young man. Women flock to him, and he returns the interests of several of them. He even fights a duel over one of the women he pursues. The other dueler remains a close friend to Finn, in spite of all that. There is, by the way, no dueling scene. That part of the story is narrated second-hand, mostly. If you want fire, smoke and dead bodies in your reading, Trollope is not the writer for you. With reservations, however, this is a worthwhile book.
Simon Vance does his usual outstanding job reading the story. Vance really keeps interest up, which, given the surplus of words in this book, is a fine achievement.
Author
Author Bio: Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) grew up in London. He inherited his mother’s ambition to write and was famously disciplined in the development of his craft. His first novel was published in 1847 while he was working in Ireland as a surveyor for the General Post Office. He wrote a series of books set in the English countryside as well as those set in the political life, works that show great psychological penetration. One of his greatest strengths was his ability to re-create in his fiction his own vision of the social structures of Victorian England. The author of forty-seven novels, he was one of the most prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era.
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| Available Formats : | Digital Download, Digital Rental, CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Classics |
| Runtime: | 22.55 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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