Phineas finn, the irish member

'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!'
Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope. Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Les tours de Barchester

It is certainly of service to a man to know who were his grandfathers and who were his grandmothers if he entertain an ambition to move in the upper circles of society, and also of service to be able to speak of them as of persons who were themselves somebodies in their time. No doubt we all entertain great respect for those who by their own energies have raised themselves in the world; and when we hear that the son of a washerwoman has become Lord Chancellor or Archbishop of Canterbury we do, theoretically and abstractedly, feel a higher reverence for such self-made magnate than for one who has been as it were born into forensic or ecclesiastical purple. But not the less must the offspring of the washerwoman have had very much trouble on the subject of his birth, unless he has been, when young as well as when old, a very great man indeed.

The Prime Minister

Un amour de jeunesse

This book deals with the history of Jamaica.

"Studies in Jamaica archæology and history naturally fall into three main groups: Aboriginal, Spanish and English. Though, owing to the high form of civilization there attained, research has in Egypt revealed very full information concerning the condition of life in the Nile valley thousands of years before the Christian era, it has hitherto told us very little about the aborigines who inhabited Jamaica a little more than 400 years ago. How long they had been here when Columbus discovered the island no one can say for certain, though the thickness and extent of their middens, some thirty of which have been opened from time to time, offer evidence of value."

Jamaica - Historical Study

This   carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden   + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at   Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset" contains 6 novels in one volume and   is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of   contents.
The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or, in more recent UK usage, the Barchester   Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope,   set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately   where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels   concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political,   amatory, and social manoeuvrings that go on among and between them.
The novels in the series are:
The Warden (1855)
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Framley Parsonage (1861)
The Small House at Allington   (1864)
The Last Chronicle of Barset   (1867)
Anthony Trollope (1815 -  1882) was   one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the   Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the   Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of   Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender   issues, and on other topical matters.

The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire: The Warden + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset

Après la mort brutale de son épouse bien aimée, Plantagenet Palliser, duc d’Omnium, se retrouve terriblement seul pour s’occuper de ses enfants. D’autant que ces derniers lui causent bien du souci. Alors que ses deux fils se font renvoyer de Oxford et Cambridge pour indiscipline, sa fille se lie à un jeune homme qui n’appartient pas à la gentry. Pas question d’une mésalliance dans la famille…

Phineas finn, the irish member

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