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The Eustace Diamonds
Anthony Trollope
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Description for The Eustace Diamonds
Paperback. Lizzie Eustace's determination to hold on to a fabulous diamond necklace entangles her in a web of deceit that involves her cousin and his fiancee in a story that is part sensation fiction, part detective novel, part political satire and part romance. Hugely engaging, the novel is also a highly revealing study of Victorian Britain. Editor(s): Small, Helen. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 462.
'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law's solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - and contrived love-affairs. Her cousin Frank, Tory MP and struggling barrister, loyally assists her, to the distress of his fiancée, Lucy Morris. A pompous Under-Secretary of State, an exploitative and acquisitive American and her ... Read more
'She liked lies...To lie readily and cleverly, recklessly and yet successfully, was, according to the lessons which she had learned, a necessity in a woman' Lizzie Eustace is young, beautiful, and widowed. Her determination to hold on to the Eustace family's diamond necklace in the face of legal harassment by her brother-in-law's solicitor entangles her in a series of crimes - apparent and real - and contrived love-affairs. Her cousin Frank, Tory MP and struggling barrister, loyally assists her, to the distress of his fiancée, Lucy Morris. A pompous Under-Secretary of State, an exploitative and acquisitive American and her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199587780
SKU
9780199587780
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About Anthony Trollope
Helen Small is the author of The Long Life, winner of the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism 2008 and the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, also 2008. For Oxford World's Classics she has edited George Eliot's The Lifted Veil and Brother Jacob and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.
Reviews for The Eustace Diamonds
a masterpiece...a joy to read
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