Red Wheelbarrow Book Reviews
Renee
from Renée's Reviews
ADULT FICTION
Palliser novels
by Anthony Trollope
Penguin Classics UKI'm reading the Palliser novels of Anthony Trollope over this summer and I am more or less in the middle of the series. But I need to tell any of you who are interested in democratic political systems and above all in parliamentary government, these books are a wonder and a delight. There has been a radio reading in Britain of The Prime Minister and the popular reaction seems to be to confuse this late nineteenth century prime minister with Tony Blair. The books are spookily prophetic. Lady Glencora has her clone in Cherie Blair, we find a politically correct suicide, leakings from the press and their consequence on the political developments, the questioning of the government's integrity—it reads as though you had already seen the movie in most of the details. Unlike the versions in our press, the author's humor is ever present.
Plantagent Palliser is the prime minister's name. Isn't that enough to make you want to dip into the nineteenth century and discover the mirror replay of our times?
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