Phineas Finn

Name: Phineas Finn
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781441780683

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 23 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Synopsis

Phineas Finn is an Irishman climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today. Phineas Finn is the second of the six Palliser novels that effectively capture parliamentary political society in Englands high Victorian period.

About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was one of the most successful English novelists during the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, but he also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues as well as other topical matters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greg on January 15, 2013

Phineas Finn: The Irish Member isn't about an Irish penis. Rather, it is about a young Irish gentleman who who gets himself elected to the British House of Commons and the manner that he navigates through the very exciting legislative time period surrouding the Second Reform Bill! I bet I had you cli......more

Goodreads review by Katie on June 16, 2019

Another fantastic Trollope read, with compelling characters, rich themes and such enjoyable writing.......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth (Alaska) on June 07, 2017

Sometimes the hardest thing you'll ever do is to do the right thing. How do you weigh the cost of the sacrifice between two objectives - both of which are dear to you, and which are mutually exclusive? Ok, so those might be bigger questions than Trollope had in mind when he wrote Phineas Finn. But t......more