The fifth in Trollope's six-volume Palliser series and a wonderfully subtle portrait of a marriage, political expediency and misplaced love. Includes an introduction, select bibliography and explanatory notes by Nicholas Shrimpton Plantagenet Palliser's fragile coalition government and troubled marriage is set against the social climbing of the unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, whose relationship with Emily Wharton generates misery and scandal. Part of the Palliser series, the novel is one of Trollope's most complex.
