{"product_id":"the-dukes-children-complete-extended-edition-9780198835875","title":"The Duke's Children Complete: Extended Edition","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eHe was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must\u003cbr\u003ebecome deeply involved with his children for the first time. They vex him enormously: with school expulsions, \u003cbr\u003evast gambling debts, and what he considers to be calamitous romantic attachments. He tries to compel them to\u003cbr\u003edo what he wants, but they are not so easy to manage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven when his eldest child and heir, Lord Silverbridge, makes him proud by embarking upon a political career, the\u003cbr\u003eDuke grapples with heartache. For Silverbridge becomes a Conservative rather than a Liberal, flouting the family\u003cbr\u003etradition. The relationship between father and son is drawn with remarkable subtlety, and the book as a whole\u003cbr\u003ebecomes a piercing, yet often humorous, exploration of change: how both the young and the old resist, tolerate, \u003cbr\u003eor embrace it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTrollope cut roughly 65,000 words, at a vulnerable moment in his career, to get the novel published, but\u003cbr\u003econcluded rapidly that he had made a grievous error. After a painstaking reconstruction by a team of\u003cbr\u003eresearchers, \u003cem\u003eThe Duke's Children\u003c\/em\u003e, the final book in Trollope's famed Palliser series, can now be read the way he first intended. It is a masterpiece of Victorian fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198835875\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 736","brand":"Anthony Trollope","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38017478164661,"sku":"9780198835875","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_f9ea313b-b782-475d-a158-8dfd33b25333.jpg?v=1609164967","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-dukes-children-complete-extended-edition-9780198835875","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}