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Introduction by Asa Briggs. First published in serial form in eight monthly installments between November 1875 and June 1876. The actual Prime Minister at the time was Benjamin Disraeli, a Conservative whom Trollope particularly mistrusted and disliked.

THE PRIME MINISTER covers the period in which Plantagenet Palliser reluctantly leads the country in a three-year coalition government. Despite his wife's efforts to consolidate his base of support, he is too sensitive, diffident, and uncompromising to make a successful prime minister. Threaded into the political narrative is the story of the corrupt Ferdinand Lopez, a mysterious figure of dangerous influence and dubious background. "The Prime Minister" has a more gentle vein of humor than the earlier novels, but its subtle chiding of Parliament and the society surrounding it is an irrefutable criticism of the hollowness at the center of the system.

Hardcovered book, excellent condition. Published in 1991, 448 pages.

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