![]() 1 cracked but firm, slightly shaken, internally clean a very good set. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices. ![]() Light wear to extremities, the bindings otherwise bright and unfaded, hinges of vol. The Eustace Diamonds is the 3rd book in the Palliser Novels, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order. ![]() Lizzie Greystock is a woman of rare cunning and determinationboth of which she uses to better her lot in life. Smith & Son's Library stamped in blind to front free endpaper of vol. For an ambitious, keenly intelligent woman, lying proves to be the easiest way to get through life, in this Victorian-era classic. Original variant binding in green embossed cloth, titles in gilt to spines, pale yellow endpapers. Sadleir makes no mention of the present variant binding only describing the publisher's "salmon-brown sand-grained cloth" with gilt lettering to spines, and a single variant in "a definite brown" cloth with black lettering. Lizzies insistence on the necklace being her own causes grief between her and Lord Fawn as a suitor, and the diamonds bright glitter attracts the. was enormously popular and did much to repair the decline in Trollope's critical reputation that had set in after the high point achieved with The Last Chronicle of Barset, 1867" (ODNB). The real plot involves the widowed Lady Lizzie Eustace refusing to give up a valuable diamond necklace that is claimed to be a part of the Eustace estate and, therefore, not to be taken by a widow. It was first serialized in the Fortnightly Review from July 1871 to February 1873. ![]() First UK edition in book form of the third Palliser novel, following the US edition published two months earlier, in October 1872, by Harper in a single-volume format. ![]()
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