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by Anthony Trollope (Author), David Skilton (Introduction)
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  • Paperback: 736 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics; New Ed edition (5 Aug 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 014043349X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0140433494
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez. An exotic impostor, seemingly from nowhere, Lopez has society at his feet, while well-connected ladies vie with each other to exert influence on his behalf - even Palliser’s own wife, Lady Glencora. But when the interloper makes a socially advantageous marriage, Palliser must decide whether to stand by his wife’s support for Lopez in a by-election or leave him to face exposure as a fortune-hunting adventurer. A novel of social, sexual and domestic politics, The Prime Minister raises one of the most enduring questions in government - whether a morally scrupulous gentleman can make an effective leader.

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Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) established a successful career in the Post Office whilst also writing over forty novels, plus short stories. He enjoyed considerable acclaim during his lifetime. He is best remembered for the Barsetshire Chronicles. David Skilton is Professor of English at Cardiff. He has also edited Thomas Hardy for the Penguin Classics.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Deserved Classic, 9 Jan 2001
By Mrs. K. A. Wheatley "katywheatley" (Leicester, UK) - See all my reviews
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What I love about Trollope is his scope and vision. He writes so brilliantly about politics and just makes them come alive. There is not a moment of boredom from start to finish, and that is because Trollope has a fundamental understanding of what politics is all about, it is about people, and he cares passionately for people. I get so attached to the characters in his novels because they are given real, interesting lives. This book is about compromise in politics, about how ideals have to be tempered for real life and is an interesting precursor to the final book in the series "The Duke's Children" for what Palliser learns in politics here he has to learn more brutally in his private life next. Fantastic
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5.0 out of 5 stars As good as it gets, 11 Sep 2008
By Didier (Ghent, Belgium) - See all my reviews
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This, the fifth novel in the Palliser series, is according to David Skilton in his introduction `the key work in the (...) series'. Now I wouldn't know about that, not having read the sixth and last novel, but what I do know without a shadow of a doubt is that this is a very very good novel in its own right.

Trollope loosely intertwines two plots in `The Prime Minister'. In the `political' plot Plantagenet Palliser is asked and eventually (though reluctantly) accepts to become prime minister, to the great pride and joy of his wife Lady Glencora. In the `social' plot, Emily Wharton, daughter of a wealthy lawyer, falls in love with and marries, against the advice of all her friends and relatives, a certain Ferdinand Lopez (about whom nobody seems to know much, not who his parents were, or how he makes a living). In both cases the protagonists come to realize before long that it's not all gold that glitters: Palliser learns that being prime minister is not all it's made out to be, and Emily discovers how deceptive appearances can be when she gets to know her husband better.

Trollope investigates several themes in `The Prime Minister' by (implicitly) comparing and contrasting the main characters. As to the men: Plantagenet Palliser is indeed `the perfect gentleman' but this has its drawbacks too, or so it seems: he is scrupulous to a t, unable to socialize and `joke around' with other men, and ever in doubt of his own capability to be a good prime minister. The question Trollope raises is ultimately: can a true gentleman be a good prime minister? Ferdinand Lopez on the other hand is the opposite: he has all the outer trappings of a gentleman, but it turns out that beneath this thin veneer he is a ruthless and egotistical opportunist. However, Lopez has an energy and `can do' mentality, a will to succeed, that Palliser lacks.

The two main female characters too are contrasted: Lady Glencora has been married for years now and, in spite of his shortcomings, truly loves her husband. She tries to support him in all his efforts but in doing so `puts her foot in it' and causes him severe embarassment. Emily Wharton on the other hand tries to love and obey her husband as she feels she should, but finds this increasingly difficult when she discovers he sees her father as nothing but a milch cow (with her as the dairy maid).

Although there is a happy end of sorts, the overall effect of the novel is clearly rather gloomy and depressing, but I hasten to add that this for me by no means detracted from the joy of reading it. It's the eleventh Trollope-novel in a row I've read now, and to me one of the very best so far! And so, with a mixture of both anticipation and regret, it's on to the sixth and final part in the Palliser series, `The Duke's Children'!
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4.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite on politics, but this Palliser lacks passion, 2 May 2007
By 100wordreviewer (Kiev) - See all my reviews
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The fifth of Trollope's six "Palliser" novels, "The Prime Minister" follows the Prime Ministerial career of the languid and honourable Duke of Omnium. In parallel, we also follow the love affair of Emily Wharton with the dastardly Ferdinand Lopez. The politics of all this is outstanding: the book teems with contemporary-sounding epithets ("ministers are always indecent in their haste or treacherous in their delay") and the Duke's travails sound astonishingly modern. But the relationship side of things is far weaker than in earlier Palliser novels, notably The Eustace Diamonds or Can You Forgive Her, both far stronger. And the fact that Lopez is an object of suspicion because he is Jewish and foreign, and subsequently turns out to be utterly untrustworthy, leaves an unpleasant taste.

For: brilliant on politics. Against: long-winded and a touch anti-semitic
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