Phineas Finn, son of a doctor in County Clare, is elected member for the pocket borough of Loughshane before he has any income to live on. In London he must make his way in the Commons and the great houses, torn between ambition and conscience and between the women who matter to him, Lady Laura Standish and Violet Effingham among them.
The second Palliser novel and a fine entry point to Trollope’s political world. Download the free EPUB.