'The Duke's Children' is the sixth and final novel in Anthony Trollope's popular 'Palliser' series of novels. In it, we are reunited with Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium in tragic circumstances. A formerly remote father figure to his children, the Duke now finds himself drawn into each of their romantic and professional troubles. What will the two generations be able to learn from each other in a changing Victorian society?

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- Chapter I: When the Duchess Was Dead
- Chapter II: Lady Mary Palliser
- Chapter III: Francis Oliphant Tregear
- Chapter IV: Park Lane
- Chapter V: “It Is Impossible”
- Chapter VI: Major Tifto
- Chapter VII: Conservative Convictions
- Chapter VIII: “He Is a Gentleman”
- Chapter IX: “In Medias Res”
- Chapter X: “Why Not Like Romeo If I Feel Like Romeo?”
- Chapter XI: “Cruel”
- Chapter XII: At Richmond
- Chapter XIII: The Duke’s Injustice
- Chapter XIV: The New Member for Silverbridge
- Chapter XV: The Duke Receives a Letter,—and Writes One
- Chapter XVI: “Poor Boy”
- Chapter XVII: The Derby
- Chapter XVIII: One of the Results of the Derby
- Chapter XIX: “No; My Lord, I Do Not”
- Chapter XX: “Then He Will Come Again”
- Chapter XXI: Sir Timothy Beeswax
- Chapter XXII: The Duke in His Study
- Chapter XXIII: Frank Tregear Wants a Friend
- Chapter XXIV: “She Must Be Made to Obey”
- Chapter XXV: A Family Breakfast-Table
- Chapter XXVI: Dinner at the Beargarden
- Chapter XXVII: Major Tifto and the Duke
- Chapter XXVIII: Mrs. Montacute Jones’s Garden-Party
- Chapter XXIX: The Lovers Meet
- Chapter XXX: What Came of the Meeting
- Chapter XXXI: Miss Boncassen’s River-Party. No. 1
- Chapter XXXII: Miss Boncassen’s River-Party. No. 2
- Chapter XXXIII: The Langham Hotel
- Chapter XXXIV: Lord Popplecourt
- Chapter XXXV: “Don’t You Think—?”
- Chapter XXXVI: Tally-Ho Lodge
- Chapter XXXVII: Grex
- Chapter XXXVIII: Crummie-Toddie
- Chapter XXXIX: Killancodlem
- Chapter XL: “And Then!”
- Chapter XLI: Ischl
- Chapter XLII: Again at Killancodlem
- Chapter XLIII: What Happened at Doncaster
- Chapter XLIV: How It Was Done
- Chapter XLV: “There Shall Not Be Another Word About It”
- Chapter XLVI: Lady Mary’s Dream
- Chapter XLVII: Miss Boncassen’s Idea of Heaven
- Chapter XLVIII: The Party at Custins Is Broken Up
- Chapter XLIX: The Major’s Fate
- Chapter L: The Duke’s Arguments
- Chapter LI: The Duke’s Guests
- Chapter LII: Miss Boncassen Tells the Truth
- Chapter LIII: “Then I Am As Proud As a Queen”
- Chapter LIV: “I Don’t Think She Is a Snake”
- Chapter LV: Polpenno
- Chapter LVI: The News Is Sent to Matching
- Chapter LVII: The Meeting at “The Bobtailed Fox”
- Chapter LVIII: The Major Is Deposed
- Chapter LIX: No One Can Tell What May Come to Pass
- Chapter LX: Lord Gerald in Further Trouble
- Chapter LXI: “Bone of My Bone”
- Chapter LXII: The Brake Country
- Chapter LXIII: “I’ve Seen’Em Like That Before”
- Chapter LXIV: “I Believe Him to Be a Worthy Young Man”
- Chapter LXV: “Do You Ever Think What Money Is?”
- Chapter LXVI: The Three Attacks
- Chapter LXVII: “He Is Such a Beast”
- Chapter LXVIII: Brook Street
- Chapter LXIX: “Pert Poppet!”
- Chapter LXX: “Love May Be a Great Misfortune”
- Chapter LXXI: “What Am I to Say, Sir?”
- Chapter LXXII: Carlton Terrace
- Chapter LXXIII: “I Have Never Loved You”
- Chapter LXXIV: “Let Us Drink a Glass of Wine Together”
- Chapter LXXV: The Major’s Story
- Chapter LXXVI: On Deportment
- Chapter LXXVII: “Mabel, Good-Bye”
- Chapter LXXVIII: The Duke Returns to Office
- Chapter LXXIX: The First Wedding
- Chapter LXXX: The Second Wedding
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