Not everyone ends up happy and some seem to be happy but troubles may come ahead. Sometimes you can guess how things are going to turn up but many times there were a tremendous amount of surprises. Don't get me wrong I loved it but I did not think that as I read on that these two series were quite the treasure that they ended up for me! The next in the series started more characters interplay and social issue combined which continued to be Trollope's formula for success throughout. When I began with 'The Warden', I had no idea what a ride I was in for because though I enjoyed that book, it was lacking a little for me.

Having just finished his last in the series, I wanted to comment about the whole before going on with the book review. About every month, I would come back to familiar settings and characters and especially wondering how it will all end. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.įor the last 15 months, I have enjoyed entering Trollope's England, Barchester and the Duke of Omnium's world. The Duke’s Children is the 6th book in the Palliser Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. With The Duke’s Children, Anthony Trollope brings one of the great classic Victorian sagas to a close. With such odds set against him, the duke will have to find it within himself to change, to face the end of the proper world he has always known, and to accept the new world his family has embraced for the good of all. And Palliser’s youngest, Lord Gerald, has managed to get himself expelled from Oxford. Meanwhile, Silverbridge has followed his father’s wishes by entering Parliament only to become enamored with an American heiress who refuses to marry unless Palliser willingly welcomes her into the family.

Unbeknownst to Palliser, his late wife had given their daughter, Lady Mary, her blessing to pursue a courtship with a poor gentleman friend of the duke’s eldest son, Lord Silverbridge. And it does not take him long to realize that his children have somehow become adults of their own accord-though not for the better.

Palliser has never been a doting father, what with the responsibilities of title and duty constantly beckoning him away, but now his government no longer needs him. Plantagenet Palliser must face new challenges and a changing world if he is to hold his family together in the final installment of the Palliser Novels.Īfter losing his devoted wife, Glencora, Duke Plantagenet Palliser takes on a task he has never had the time or skills to bother with before: dealing with his children.

The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope