{"product_id":"the-dukes-children-complete-extended-edition-paperback","title":"The Duke's Children Complete: Extended Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnthony Trollope\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSteven Amarnick\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHe was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must\u003cbr\u003ebecome deeply involved with his children for the first time. They vex him enormously: with school expulsions, \u003cbr\u003evast gambling debts, and what he considers to be calamitous romantic attachments. He tries to compel them to\u003cbr\u003edo what he wants, but they are not so easy to manage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven when his eldest child and heir, Lord Silverbridge, makes him proud by embarking upon a political career, the\u003cbr\u003eDuke grapples with heartache. For Silverbridge becomes a Conservative rather than a Liberal, flouting the family\u003cbr\u003etradition. The relationship between father and son is drawn with remarkable subtlety, and the book as a whole\u003cbr\u003ebecomes a piercing, yet often humorous, exploration of change: how both the young and the old resist, tolerate, \u003cbr\u003eor embrace it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrollope cut roughly 65,000 words, at a vulnerable moment in his career, to get the novel published, but\u003cbr\u003econcluded rapidly that he had made a grievous error. After a painstaking reconstruction by a team of\u003cbr\u003eresearchers, \u003cem\u003eThe Duke's Children\u003c\/em\u003e, the final book in Trollope's famed Palliser series, can now be read the way he first intended. It is a masterpiece of Victorian fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Trollope\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Amarnick\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor of English at the City University of New York (Kingsborough Community College). In addition to his work on \u003cem\u003eThe Duke's Children\u003c\/em\u003e, Prof. Amarnick has lectured and written extensively on other aspects of Trollope's fiction. Most recently, he is author of 'A Christmas Cavil: Trollope Re-Writes Dickens in the Outback, ' in \u003cem\u003eThe Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope\u003c\/em\u003e (Edinburgh University Press, 2018); 'Can You Forgive Him?: Trollope, Jews, and Prejudice, ' in \u003cem\u003eThe Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope\u003c\/em\u003e (Routledge, 2016); and 'Killing Mrs Proudie, ' in \u003cem\u003eTrollopiana\u003c\/em\u003e (Winter 2012-13). He was also curator of the exhibition 'Anthony Trollope: The Art of Modesty, ' at the Fales Collection, New York University (1998).\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 02, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768979128608,"sku":"9780198835875","price":18.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3109741bf723b7536f32569ca18d9e90.webp?v=1780340711","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-dukes-children-complete-extended-edition-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}