Phineas Finn

Beskrivning

Titel: Phineas Finn, The Irish Member
Författare: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9780140430851
Förlag: Penguin Classics
Utgivningsår: 1985
Bandtyp: Häftad/Storpocket
Språk: Engelska
Skick: Gott skick – något nötta hörn och ryggändar; små veck på kanterna; ett läsveck på ryggen.

Phineas Finn, The Irish Member is the second of Trollope’s Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.

Anthony Trollope was born on 24 April 1815 and attended both Harrow and Winchester schools. His family were poor and eventually were forced to move to Belgium, where his father died. His mother, Frances Trollope, supported the family through writing. Trollope began a life-long career in the civil service with a position as a clerk in the General Post Office in London – he is also credited with later introducing the pillar box.

He published his first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloranin 1847, but his fourth novel, The Warden (1855) began the series of ’Barsetshire’ novels for which he was to become best known. This series of five novels featuring interconnecting characters spanned twenty years of Trollope’s career as a novelist, as did the ’Palliser’ series. He wrong over 47 novels in total, as well as short stories, biographies, travel books and his own autobiography, which was published posthumously in 1883. Trollope resigned from the Post Office in 1867 and stood for Parliament as a Liberal, though he was not elected. He died on 6 December 1882.