Phineas Redux
- Author Anthony Trollope
- Narrator Simon Vance
- Publisher Craig Black
- Publish Date 15 March 2012
- Run Time 23 hours and 7 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Classic fiction.
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What to expect
His beloved wife having died in childbirth, Phineas Finn finds Irish society and his job as a poorhouse inspector dull and unsatisfying, particularly after the excitement of his former career as a member of Parliament. Back in England, the Whigs are determined to overturn the Tory majority in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Since Finn had once been considered the most promising of the younger set, he is encouraged to run for office again. Bribery, romance, and murder are peppered throughout this Trollope novel.
The fourth novel in the Palliser series, Phineas Redux stands alone as a compelling work of political intrigue, personal crisis, and romantic jealousy.
Critics Review
“There are certain chapters in the middle of Phineas Redux that are Trollope at the highest power.”
u201cAt its core, Phineas Reduxu00a0is more about friendship than romance, family life, or even politicsu2026Alliances through friendship permeate political and romantic relationships alike and repeatedly entwine them togetheru2026Friendship is for Trollope one of the most stable of social bonds and yet also a transitory and transitional one, another in-between state, that is always in danger of becoming something less or more.u201d
u201cLater Palliser novels such as Phineas Redux and The Prime Minister ennobleu2014at times even heroizeu2014exemplary characters. The thoroughgoing corruption these novels depict does not neutralize or even privatize human virtue so much as portray public life as a grueling duty (Palliser) or exacting challenge (Finn) to which ethical exemplars must submit.u201d
nu201cThere is a case for arguing that Phineas Redux, although perhaps less well-known and popular than Phineas Finn, is in some ways a greater achievement. In it Trollope displays, at times almost negligently, his two greatest strengthsu2014his power of characterization and his capacity to dramatize the ordinaryu2026In Phineas Redux, with its darker tone and more astringent style, it is recognizably a real world with which we are dealing and we pay it the ultimate tribute of feeling a genuine sense of loss when we leave it.u201d
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