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Author: Anthony Trollope
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The Duke's Children Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780192835383
ISBN: 0192835386
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 704
Publication Date: 1999-06-24
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780192835383
ISBN: 0192835386
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Book Pages: 704
Publication Date: 1999-06-24
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
Editorial Review of The Duke's Children
The Duke of Omnium, ever the perfect gentleman, is sorely tested by his children's college escapades and the matrimonial choices of his son, Lord Silverbridge, and his daughter, Lady Mary. This wonderful story is full of love and laughter. Twelve 90-minute cassettes and three 60's.
Customer Reviews of The Duke's Children
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Duke Planty Pall has difficult adult children to deal with in the last of the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
Review: "The Duke's Children" of 1880 is the final installment in the sixth book of the lengthy Palliser series of Parliamentary novels by Anthony Trollope.
As the book opens we learn that Lady Glencora Palliser the feisty wife of the starchy Duke of Omnium has died. The Duke is a former Prime Minister of Great Britain. He has trouble with all three of his grown children:
1. Silverbridge is the oldest boy and heir to the Duke's immense fortune. He is sent down from Oxford due to prankish and juvenile behavior. He gambles and loses thousands on racing coming under the influence of the odious Major Shifto. Silverbridge considers marrying the unstable and gloomy Lady Mabel Grex. Instead, he becomes a lover of the tart-tongued
American beauty Isabel Bocassen. The old Duke opposes this alliance since Mabel is a commoner and a Yankee. Silverbridge is favored by Isabel as she rejects the stupid Dolly Longstaff. Silverbridge wins a seat in Parliament as a Conservative member much to the disgust of the Duke who comes from a long line of Liberals. Trollope is good on discussing the differences between American and British lifestyles.
2. Gerald is the youngest son who is also a gambler and does poorly in school. He is a minor character and a mirror image of the older but no wiser Lord Silverbridge.
3. Mary is the daughter who falls in love with Frank Tregar. Frank had earlier been in love with Mabel Grex. Will Planty Pall permit this marriage? Frank is a close friend of Silverbridge who helps him win a seat in the House of Commons.
The book is very lengthy and can become tedious over who will marry whom. In the end they almost all end happily mated to a partner. The book is good but is not one of Trollope's best.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "The Duke's Children Is The Good For Above
Review: "The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope.
Narrated by Flo Gibson.
Performance copyright 1993 by Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
ISBN 1 55685 295 9.
This is came from public library resell market major collection central general.
so, that is library stickers and marks and official making normally include.
Total of 15 audio cassette are in plastic case.
But, the case has been seem cracked tapped and latest dirt.
But, the tapes are still playable and helping to who interesting in listen and think, or purchase and keep, or talk and teach each other anywhere in the world.
THE DUKE'S CHILDREN IS THE GOOD FOR ABOVE, who are in familiar with these area and subject."
[from the experience]
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A 200-page idea in 600-plus pages
Review: The Trollope lover will not think of missing this, the culmination of the Palliser novels, but will love Trollope a little less after reading it. It is all the things detractors of his work complain of -- plotless, rambling, dull, fussy, trivial. It is a story written not from an irresistible energy to tell it, but from a pair of good ideas: to echo the circumstances of the Duke's own marriage to his late beloved Glencora in an ironic way, and to show that the social changes brought about in part by his own lifetime of Liberal politics have resulted in a world and a way of thinking that Palliser himself cannot accept. Maybe a Henry James could put enough flesh on this scheme to render the narrative human and alive, but THE DUKE'S CHILDREN is sadly inert. It is the sort of book that tends to make a good movie: its conception is more interesting than the pages inside it.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Victorian generation clash.
Review: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. This must be understood or nothing wonderful can come of this tale. The last installment of Trollope's Palliser series begins with this sad development. Long Victorian faces grow even longer with grief. Now ex-Prime Minster, Plantagenet Palliser must cope alone with the foibles of his three adult children. As the reader discovers, their expectations are not consistent with their father's ideas. Typical of Anthony Trollope, the story unfolds leisurely for 600+ pages. Regardless, the quiet little story urges one to keep turning the pages. 19th century British politics, social customs, and romantic attitudes seem quaint, even amusing, by today's standards. Much as the writings of Jane Austen, reconciling marriage and money drive the story. Trollope's elegant style is a delight. The reader is lulled into a quiet sense of relaxation. No great truths or insights to report, but good downtime reading. Appreciate the novel as you would a fine painting or a delicate antique tea set. If one seeks a pleasant diversion from the noise, clatter, and electronics of modern life this is recommended reading. Relish the experience. ;-)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Duke's Children?
Review: Rascals and confusion, Trollope wrote with all the elements that excited that of readers from the Victorian Era, and that can also excite ones from our age.
Review Summary: Duke Planty Pall has difficult adult children to deal with in the last of the Palliser novels by Anthony Trollope
Review: "The Duke's Children" of 1880 is the final installment in the sixth book of the lengthy Palliser series of Parliamentary novels by Anthony Trollope.
As the book opens we learn that Lady Glencora Palliser the feisty wife of the starchy Duke of Omnium has died. The Duke is a former Prime Minister of Great Britain. He has trouble with all three of his grown children:
1. Silverbridge is the oldest boy and heir to the Duke's immense fortune. He is sent down from Oxford due to prankish and juvenile behavior. He gambles and loses thousands on racing coming under the influence of the odious Major Shifto. Silverbridge considers marrying the unstable and gloomy Lady Mabel Grex. Instead, he becomes a lover of the tart-tongued
American beauty Isabel Bocassen. The old Duke opposes this alliance since Mabel is a commoner and a Yankee. Silverbridge is favored by Isabel as she rejects the stupid Dolly Longstaff. Silverbridge wins a seat in Parliament as a Conservative member much to the disgust of the Duke who comes from a long line of Liberals. Trollope is good on discussing the differences between American and British lifestyles.
2. Gerald is the youngest son who is also a gambler and does poorly in school. He is a minor character and a mirror image of the older but no wiser Lord Silverbridge.
3. Mary is the daughter who falls in love with Frank Tregar. Frank had earlier been in love with Mabel Grex. Will Planty Pall permit this marriage? Frank is a close friend of Silverbridge who helps him win a seat in the House of Commons.
The book is very lengthy and can become tedious over who will marry whom. In the end they almost all end happily mated to a partner. The book is good but is not one of Trollope's best.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: "The Duke's Children Is The Good For Above
Review: "The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope.
Narrated by Flo Gibson.
Performance copyright 1993 by Audio Book Contractors, Inc.
ISBN 1 55685 295 9.
This is came from public library resell market major collection central general.
so, that is library stickers and marks and official making normally include.
Total of 15 audio cassette are in plastic case.
But, the case has been seem cracked tapped and latest dirt.
But, the tapes are still playable and helping to who interesting in listen and think, or purchase and keep, or talk and teach each other anywhere in the world.
THE DUKE'S CHILDREN IS THE GOOD FOR ABOVE, who are in familiar with these area and subject."
[from the experience]
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: A 200-page idea in 600-plus pages
Review: The Trollope lover will not think of missing this, the culmination of the Palliser novels, but will love Trollope a little less after reading it. It is all the things detractors of his work complain of -- plotless, rambling, dull, fussy, trivial. It is a story written not from an irresistible energy to tell it, but from a pair of good ideas: to echo the circumstances of the Duke's own marriage to his late beloved Glencora in an ironic way, and to show that the social changes brought about in part by his own lifetime of Liberal politics have resulted in a world and a way of thinking that Palliser himself cannot accept. Maybe a Henry James could put enough flesh on this scheme to render the narrative human and alive, but THE DUKE'S CHILDREN is sadly inert. It is the sort of book that tends to make a good movie: its conception is more interesting than the pages inside it.
The Duke's children are too slight and too dim to hang a novel on; and the characters from previous books who never fail to engage us -- Marie, Phineas, and Palliser himself -- are mostly either absent or seen in isolation, fuming alone in studies and drawing-rooms. The obligatory hunting and shooting scenes are engaging but beside the point, and the presence of Major Tifto and his racetrack story are a great annoyance. The bitter, disappointed Lady Mabel adds some intermittent liveliness whenever she appears, but even she wears out her welcome. (And she is, conceptually, much too near a relation to Lady Laura in PHINEAS FINN and PHINEAS REDUX.)
Finales are never Trollope's best event. He will muff them or mute them or present the scenes of his happy endings as if viewed from a distant tree-top. I could wish the Palliser saga ended at THE PRIME MINISTER, which is superb, with perhaps a little coda telling us how Trollope saw Plantagenet Palliser's future life. That the little coda should be bloated into a mammoth vexation like this one is not uncharacteristic, but is surely unfortunate.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Victorian generation clash.
Review: Lady Glencora Palliser is dead. This must be understood or nothing wonderful can come of this tale. The last installment of Trollope's Palliser series begins with this sad development. Long Victorian faces grow even longer with grief. Now ex-Prime Minster, Plantagenet Palliser must cope alone with the foibles of his three adult children. As the reader discovers, their expectations are not consistent with their father's ideas. Typical of Anthony Trollope, the story unfolds leisurely for 600+ pages. Regardless, the quiet little story urges one to keep turning the pages. 19th century British politics, social customs, and romantic attitudes seem quaint, even amusing, by today's standards. Much as the writings of Jane Austen, reconciling marriage and money drive the story. Trollope's elegant style is a delight. The reader is lulled into a quiet sense of relaxation. No great truths or insights to report, but good downtime reading. Appreciate the novel as you would a fine painting or a delicate antique tea set. If one seeks a pleasant diversion from the noise, clatter, and electronics of modern life this is recommended reading. Relish the experience. ;-)
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: The Duke's Children?
Review: Rascals and confusion, Trollope wrote with all the elements that excited that of readers from the Victorian Era, and that can also excite ones from our age.