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A review by michael5000
The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope
4.0
One of my favorite characters in all of literature dies in this book. That would be a spoiler, except it happens in the first sentence.
The last Palliser book revisits themes that are very familiar by now, but does so with Trollope's unrivaled, dapper panache. There is a lovely metafictional sidebar about "putting the cart before the horse" and beginning a story in media res, in which Trollope essentially shows us how the tricks are performed without, somehow, ruining his magic show.
And there is not a surprising third marriage after the point where you would expect the book to end. Or is there? Maybe it's just better that it happened after the story was over.
The last Palliser book revisits themes that are very familiar by now, but does so with Trollope's unrivaled, dapper panache. There is a lovely metafictional sidebar about "putting the cart before the horse" and beginning a story in media res, in which Trollope essentially shows us how the tricks are performed without, somehow, ruining his magic show.
And there is not a surprising third marriage after the point where you would expect the book to end. Or is there? Maybe it's just better that it happened after the story was over.