About every month, I would come back to familiar settings and characters and especially wondering how it will all end. He was also curator of the exhibition 'Anthony Trollope: The Art of Modesty,' at the Fales Collection, New York University (1998).For the last 15 months, I have enjoyed entering Trollope's England, Barchester and the Duke of Omnium's world. Most recently, he is author of 'A Christmas Cavil: Trollope Re-Writes Dickens in the Outback,' in The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope (Edinburgh University Press, 2018) 'Can You Forgive Him?: Trollope, Jews, and Prejudice,' in The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (Routledge, 2016) and 'Killing MrsProudie,' in Trollopiana (Winter 2012-13). Amarnick has lectured and written extensively on other aspects of Trollope's fiction. In addition to his work on The Duke's Children, Prof.
After a painstaking reconstruction by a team of researchers, The Duke's Children, the final book in Trollope's famed Palliser series, can now be read the way he first intended.
Trollope cut roughly 65,000 words, at a vulnerable moment in his career, to get the novel published, but concluded rapidly that he had made a grievous error. The relationship between father and son is drawn with remarkable subtlety, and the book as a whole becomes a piercing, yet often humorous, exploration of change: how both the young and the old resist, tolerate, or embrace it. For Silverbridge becomes a Conservative rather than a Liberal, flouting the family tradition. He tries to compel them to do what he wants, but they are not so easy to manage.Įven when his eldest child and heir, Lord Silverbridge, makes him proud by embarking upon a political career, the Duke grapples with heartache. They vex him enormously: with school expulsions, vast gambling debts, and what he considers to be calamitous romantic attachments. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo He was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.Īfter the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must become deeply involved with his children for the first time.
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