{"product_id":"2026200016835-secondhand-the-pallisers","title":"The Pallisers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the grand drawing rooms and corridors of Victorian power, Anthony Trollope's The Pallisers unfolds one of English literature's most ambitious sagas — a sweeping chronicle of aristocratic ambition, political intrigue, and the complex entanglements of love and marriage among England's ruling class. At the heart of this masterwork stands Plantagenet Palliser, a principled and dutiful politician destined for the highest offices of the land, alongside his spirited and restless wife, Lady Glencora, whose unfulfilled romantic yearnings and fierce independence place her perpetually at odds with the rigid expectations of her world. Together, their union — brilliant yet emotionally strained — anchors a vast tapestry of characters navigating the treacherous currents of Westminster politics and high society across six interconnected novels.\n\nTrollope, celebrated as one of the great chroniclers of Victorian England, brings to The Pallisers his signature blend of psychological acuity, satirical wit, and moral seriousness, illuminating the quiet hypocrisies and unspoken compromises that underpin a society obsessed with rank, wealth, and respectability. His prose moves with the measured confidence of a writer who knew his world intimately, presenting its contradictions with compassion rather than contempt. Whether you are drawn by its richly rendered political drama or its deeply human portrait of a marriage under pressure, this is a series that rewards its readers with an unparalleled vision of an age — and leaves one wondering whether duty and desire can ever truly be reconciled.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269344305371,"sku":"2026200016835-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/7e11afa4-3ae6-4b10-a288-7b76823ba7c0.png?v=1788998854","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200016835-secondhand-the-pallisers","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}