The Eustace Diamonds

Anthony Trollope

Nov 2016 · Open Road Media

About this ebook

For an ambitious, keenly intelligent woman, lying proves to be the easiest way to get through life, in this Victorian-era classic.
 
Lizzie Greystock is a woman of rare cunning and determination—both of which she uses to better her lot in life. This is especially true when she manages to convince the ailing Sir Florian Eustace to marry her shortly before his demise, leaving Lizzie both a wealthy widow and the mother to Florian’s young son.
 
A born deceiver, Lizzie is easily able to keep up the front of a proper mourning widow. But while her inherited wealth provides her with comfort, her true love is saved for the opulent diamond necklace her late husband gifted to her. Though it is a family heirloom, she adamantly refuses to give it up, and it soon becomes the focus of her life and the lives of those around her.
 
The story of one woman’s ability to mask her true self and manipulate those who would do the same, TheEustace Diamonds shows the true mastery of witty storytelling and social mores that made Anthony Trollope a revered author.
 
The Eustace Diamonds is the 3rd book in the Palliser Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
 
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Ratings and reviews

I personally found this book to be superbly written along with keeping the reader captivated & entertained. Also, the richness of the characters, in which Anthony Trollope was able to make the reader feel & truly appreciate is very powerfully moving! ☺ 😺 👍 😆

10 pages of the characters' thoughts round and round when the info. could be conveyed in 5 sentences. Probably the most boring book I have ever read. 0 stars.

About the author

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) was the author of over fifty books of fiction and nonfiction and is widely regarded as one of the preeminent English novelists of the Victorian era. Uncommon in his ability to capture both a wide readership and the highest respect of his most influential critics and peers—including luminaries such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, William Thackeray, Henry James, and George Eliot—Trollope is best remembered for two great sextets, the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Pallisers, as well as his late-career satirical masterpiece The Way We Live Now.