The Eustace diamonds
Type
Label
The Eustace diamonds
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Eustace diamonds
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Folio Society edition of the novels of Anthony Trollope
Summary
The Eustace Diamonds is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in 1871 as a serial in the Fortnightly Review. It is the third of the 'Palliser' series of novels. In this novel, the characters of Plantagenet Palliser, his wife Lady Glencora and their uncle the ailing Duke of Omnium are in the background. The plot centres on Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace and is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological delight in lying, even when it cannot benefit her. (Trollope comments that Lizzie sees lies as 'more beautiful than the truth.') Before he dies, the disillusioned Sir Florian discovers all this, but does not think to change the generous terms of his will
Target audience
adult
Classification
Genre
Subject
Content
Is Derivative Of
Incoming Resources
- Has instance2
Outgoing Resources
- Classification1
- Creator1
- Genre1
- Subject10
- Content1
- Author1
- Is Derivative Of1
- Is Part Of1