The Prime Minister

Plantagenet Palliser at the Head of a Coalition

Anthony Trollope

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785501787582
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

A duke who never wanted office holds a coalition together and is destroyed by the small things: a borough, a discourtesy, a wife who cannot stop helping. Alongside it, a Portuguese adventurer marries into a family that despises him. Trollope thought Plantagenet Palliser and his wife his finest creation and wrote them across six novels; this is the one where politics is shown as a matter of manners, and manners as a lethal weapon. Fifty-eight plates after Frith and Tissot, from drawing-room balls to a shipboard dance, catch the same social theatre in which Trollope's coalition lives and dies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Chapter I. Ferdinand Lopez
• Chapter II. Everett Wharton
• Chapter III. Mr. Abel Wharton, Q.C
• Chapter IV. Mrs. Roby
• Chapter V. “No One Knows Anything About Him”
• Chapter VI. An Old Friend Goes to Windsor
• Chapter VII. Another Old Friend
• Chapter VIII. The Beginning of a New Career
• Chapter IX. Mrs. Dick’s Dinner Party.—No. I
• Chapter X. Mrs. Dick’s Dinner Party.—No. II
• Chapter XI. Carlton Terrace
• Chapter XII. The Gathering of Clouds
• Chapter XIII. Mr. Wharton Complains
• Chapter XIV. A Lover’s Perseverance
• Chapter XV. Arthur Fletcher
• Chapter XVI. Never Run Away!
• Chapter XVII. Good-Bye
• Chapter XVIII. The Duke of Omnium Thinks of Himself
• Chapter XIX. Vulgarity
• Chapter XX. Sir Orlando’s Policy
• Chapter XXI. The Duchess’s New Swan
• Chapter XXII. St. James’s Park
• Chapter XXIII. Surrender
• Chapter XXIV. The Marriage
• Chapter XXV. The Beginning of the Honeymoon
• Chapter XXVI. The End of the Honeymoon
• Chapter XXVII. The Duke’s Misery
• Chapter XXVIII. The Duchess Is Much Troubled
• Chapter XXIX. The Two Candidates for Silverbridge
• Chapter XXX. “Yes;—A Lie!”
• Chapter XXXI. “Yes;—With a Horsewhip in My Hand”
• Chapter XXXII. “What Business Is It of Yours?”
• Chapter XXXIII. Showing That a Man Should Not Howl
• Chapter XXXIV. The Silverbridge Election
• Chapter XXXV. Lopez Back in London
• Chapter XXXVI. The Jolly Blackbird
• Chapter XXXVII. The Horns
• Chapter XXXVIII. Sir Orlando Retires
• Chapter XXXIX. “Get Round Him”
• Chapter XL. “Come and Try It”
• Chapter XLI. The Value of a Thick Skin
• Chapter XLII. Retribution
• Chapter XLIII. Kauri Gum
• Chapter XLIV. Mr. Wharton Intends to Make a New Will
• Chapter XLV. Mrs. Sexty Parker
• Chapter XLVI. “He Wants to Get Rich Too Quick”
• Chapter XLVII. As for Love!
• Chapter XLVIII. “Has He ILL-Treated You?”
• Chapter XLIX. “Where Is Guatemala?”
• Chapter L. Mr. Slide’s Revenge
• Chapter LI. Coddling the Prime Minister
• Chapter LII. “I Can Sleep Here ToNight, I Suppose?”
• Chapter LIII. Mr. Hartlepod
• Chapter LIV. Lizzie
• Chapter LV. Mrs. Parker’s Sorrows
• Chapter LVI. What the Duchess Thought of Her Husband
• Chapter LVII. The Explanation
• Chapter LVIII. “Quite Settled”
• Chapter LIX. “The First and the Last”
• Chapter LX. The Tenway Junction
• Chapter LXI. The Widow and Her Friends
• Chapter LXII. Phineas Finn Has a Book to Read
• Chapter LXIII. The Duchess and Her Friend
• Chapter LXIV. The New K.G
• Chapter LXV. “There Must Be Time”
• Chapter LXVI. The End of the Session
• Chapter LXVII. Mrs. Lopez Prepares to Move
• Chapter LXVIII. The Prime Minister’s Political Creed
• Chapter LXIX. Mrs. Parker’s Fate
• Chapter LXX. At Wharton
• Chapter LXXI. The Ladies at Longbarns Doubt
• Chapter LXXII. “He Thinks That Our Days Are Numbered”
• Chapter LXXIII. Only the Duke of Omnium
• Chapter LXXIV. “I Am Disgraced and Shamed”
• Chapter LXXV. The Great Wharton Alliance
• Chapter LXXVI. Who Will It Be?
• Chapter LXXVII. The Duchess in Manchester Square
• Chapter LXXVIII. The New Ministry
• Chapter LXXIX. The Wharton Wedding
• Chapter LXXX. The Last Meeting at Matching
• About the Author