Phineas Redux (The World's Classics)
By Anthony Trollope.
Description
'since the day on which he had accepted place and retired from London, his very soul had sighed for the lost glories of Westminster and Douning Street'After the death of his Irish wife, Phineas Finn returns to London and to the House of Commons. But though drawn back apparently irresistibly, he never approaches politics with the zest of earlier days. What Trollope describes, in some of his most powerful writing, is a sad, at times almost sombre, progress towards maturity and self-wisdom. Although Phineas survives an attempt on his life by the half-crazed and jealous Robert Kennedy...
ISBN(s)
019281589X, 9780192815897
