The Project Gutenberg eBook, Phineas Redux, by Anthony Trollope.

This accomplished, there are various social difficulties to navigate, as well as Parliamentary matters into which to delve. The delivery of the story is marred by a lot of repetition from the previous novels, Phineas Finn and The Eustace Diamonds.

This accomplished, there are various social difficulties to navigate, as well as Parliamentary matters into which to delve. I, Only Anthony Trollope could make British parliamentary politics and fox hunting (two topics that I had barely considered before reading these books) so interesting, so full of personal intrigue, and so deliciously page-turning. Are these series connected? Phew - well that took forever...I started this book months ago to check back in with the Palliser series, which I am slowly working my way through. Who is Lizzie Eustace shagging next? and that potential bigamist, Emelius who married the beautiful but nasty. As a rule, I’m morally allergic to such talk: unless you’re St John or Yeats—and even then—the apocalyptic mode comes off as overwrought.

The fourth novel in Anthony Trollope's Palliser series returns the reader to the lucky Irishman Phineas Finn.

His first wife, Mary, who I was rooting for him to marry all along in Phineas Finn, dies in the first chapter, but all is not lost for Phineas although he is most certainly grieving for his wife and infant child.

I have only read two of the Pallisers series and not in order. He falls in love--almost immediately--with Laura Standish who's the daughter of an Earl.

Funny and compelling, especially in the middle section, with usual wonderful Trollope writing and insight - though the ending was perhaps not precisely what I wanted!

And mawkish Lady Laura Kennedy is the *worst*!! Refresh and try again. The Adelaide part was just so much filler, only flimsily tied to the main plot, and completely uninteresting both as a story and as a character exploration. I read someplace that this was a story about the mature Phineas and oh hell no this is a nail biter-- even knowing that this is Trollope so the good are rewarded and the bad are punished, how the drama unfolds is gripping! I guess I began. Be the first one to. An enjoyable read, though not my favourite Palliser. “Bollocks,” said the West, less famously.

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Only Anthony Trollope could make British parliamentary politics and fox hunting (two topics that I had barely considered before reading these books) so interesting, so full of personal intrigue, and so deliciously page-turning. He faces some great challenges and his life is thrown into chaos. (If only I could have a Trollope novel with only Plantagenet, Glencora, Mme. Start by marking “Phineas Redux (Palliser, #4)” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Phineas is back--one of my favourite characters in the Palliser novels. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

A guest on some podcast I was half-listening to the other day brought me up short with this arresting prophecy: “I feel like 2016 is that moment just before an earthquake when dogs are barking like crazy, rats are fleeing the cities and gerbils are eating their young.” I may be paraphrasing slightly, but that was the gist of it.

I'm slowly rereading Trollope's political novels and just finished #4, Phineas Redux. Book from Project Gutenberg: Phineas Redux. The first half is taken up with Phineas' return to London, and the wrangling to get back into a seat in Parliament. Unknown

Reading Anthony Trollope's Palliser series is a long-term project. All of which makes for an entertaining story!

A guest on some podcast I was half-listening to the other day brought me up short with this arresting prophecy: “I feel like 2016 is that moment just before an earthquake when dogs are barking like crazy, rats are fleeing the cities and gerbils are eating their young.” I may be paraphrasing slightly, but that was the gist of it.

But with the other books I enjoyed being as concerned as the characters about the silly bullshit of their privileged lives. Phineas Finn, Phineas Finn!

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So he goes back to Ireland and marries his childhood sweetheart who rather quickly dies in childbirth.

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I also managed to forget the book at the beach, so I switched between the Audible recording and the e-book - both were excellent, and I can highly recommend Timothy West as a reader.

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Especially Plantagenet Palliser, Glencora and Madame Max. In the first Phineas book the likeable (maybe one of Trollope's most likeable characters) Irishman wins a seat in Parliament and makes his way quickly into the homes and political circles of the Liberal Party. In a similar way, you might call Trollope’s Phineas Finn and Phineas Redux a two-voume “Phinead.” They are the second and fourth of his Palliser novels but may be read together as the 1,500-page epic of fictional Irish hero Phineas Finn’s parliamentary career.

He does not forget his characters and what purpose they serve to the story, the stories are entwined together. But I can't help but feel he's so touchy and fickle that he's tiresome. Phineas Redux might be my new favorite book by Anthony Trollope. Yet Finn's luck soon deserts him, as his re entry is not rewarded with office and the income he needs to survive.

I'm slowly rereading Trollope's political novels and just finished #4, Phineas Redux.

Phineas Redux is no exception. Saturday, December 23, 2017. It's not important, very predictable, but fun!

There are some interesting new characters along with old favourites and a few nefarious repeats such as that nasty journalist (Snipes is it?) This is key for me, because the truth is, I don't love Phineas. (One character remarked to her friend, who was a Member of Parliament: I am so deep inside of Trollope in general and the Palliser novels in particular that it’s a bit hard to distinguish one from the next. The is a level of cynicism here not present in the first outing of Phineas Finn.

Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Phineas's ordeal is brilliantly written. She should have been male--she's that interested in politics and undertakes to make Phineas' career, but she marrie. on December 7, 2006, Book from Project Gutenberg: Phineas Redux, There are no reviews yet. The "weakest" link in The Palliser series to date. At times, it was a little politics heavy for my tastes, but Phineas Finn remains one of my favorite Trollope characters. The books are quite stand-alone though by the time I came to the end of Redux I realised that I had been better reading the series straight through as there were more and more references back to previous characters with whom I had not been acquainted.

Trollope dwells on the intricacies of elections and the party system and the towering political figure, Daubeney is clearly based on Disraeli.

Friends: If you love Victorian novels, but you have not yet tasted Trollope, you are in for a rare treat. Will Phineas be made an Under-Secretary of State at the Colonial Office?

First, I must mention, that after reading 12 books by Trollope, Doctor Thorne is still my favorite book. Trollope’s writing style is easy to read with a flow that keeps the reader turning pages, and this is important because his writing is prolific.

In the end, you made up your own mind, though. Yes, because certain characters come pay their visit to this political minded series from the religious centered Barsetshire series.