• ISBN13: 9780198835875
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: March 16, 2021
• Pages: 736
• Original Price: INR 690.0
• Language: N/A
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 499 grams

About the Book He was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.</strong> <p/>After the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must<br>become deeply involved with his children for the first time. They vex him enormously: with school expulsions, <br>vast gambling debts, and what he considers to be calamitous romantic attachments. He tries to compel them to<br>do what he wants, but they are not so easy to manage. <p/>Even when his eldest child and heir, Lord Silverbridge, makes him proud by embarking upon a political career, the<br>Duke grapples with heartache. For Silverbridge becomes a Conservative rather than a Liberal, flouting the family<br>tradition. The relationship between father and son is drawn with remarkable subtlety, and the book as a whole<br>becomes a piercing, yet often humorous, exploration of change: how both the young and the old resist, tolerate, <br>or embrace it. <p/>Trollope cut roughly 65,000 words, at a vulnerable moment in his career, to get the novel published, but<br>concluded rapidly that he had made a grievous error. After a painstaking reconstruction by a team of<br>researchers, <em>The Duke's Children</em>, the final book in Trollope's famed Palliser series, can now be read the way he first intended. It is a masterpiece of Victorian fiction.<br>