""Phineas at Bay" is at once an entertaining romp and a serious inquiry into how Victorian problems are also our own. It is a pleasure to read."-Nicholas Birns, author of "Understanding Anthony Powell."
Set in 1890s England, "Phineas at Bay" picks up where Anthony Trollope's Palliser series left off: now two decades after the unconventional marriage of Phineas Finn, an Irish Catholic, to the Viennese Jewish widow Marie "Madame Max" Goesler.
Phineas has become an almost entirely independent member of Parliament, nominally belonging to the Liberal Party. But his independence has come...
""Phineas at Bay" is at once an entertaining romp and a serious inquiry into how Victorian problems are also our own. It is a pleasure to read."-Ni...
