Phineas Redux

A Widower on Trial for Murder

Anthony Trollope

• Publisher: Aeneas Press
• Year: 2026
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9785486705410
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

Phineas comes back from Ireland a widower, is drawn into a quarrel over church disestablishment, and stands trial for the murder of a man who had insulted him in the street. Trollope wrote the trial scenes with a barrister's care and made the evidence circumstantial enough to convict an innocent man. The Palliser marriage is in the background, working itself out. Fifty-seven plates by painters including John Atkinson Grimshaw and Edvard Munch, from night bridges to autumn mist, echo the novel's atmosphere of suspicion and uncertain light.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Phineas Redux
• Chapter I. Temptation
• Chapter II. Harrington Hall
• Chapter III. Gerard Maule
• Chapter IV. Tankerville
• Chapter V. Mr. Daubeny’s Great Move
• Chapter VI. Phineas and His Old Friends
• Chapter VII. Coming Home from Hunting
• Chapter VIII. The Address
• Chapter IX. The Debate
• Chapter X. The Deserted Husband
• Chapter XI. The Truant Wife
• Chapter XII. Königstein
• Chapter XIII. “I Have Got the Seat.”
• Chapter XIV. Trumpeton Wood
• Chapter XV. “How Well You Knew!”
• Chapter XVI. Copperhouse Cross and Broughton Spinnies
• Chapter XVII. Madame Goesler’s Story
• Chapter XVIII. Spooner of Spoon Hall
• Chapter XIX. Something Out of the Way
• Chapter XX. Phineas Again in London
• Chapter XXI. Mr. Maule, Senior
• Chapter XXII. “Purity of Morals, Finn.”
• Chapter XXIII. Macpherson’s Hotel
• Chapter XXIV. Madame Goesler Is Sent for
• Chapter XXV. “I Would Do It Now.”
• Chapter XXVI. The Duke’s Will
• Chapter XXVII. An Editor’s Wrath
• Chapter XXVIII. The First Thunderbolt
• Chapter XXIX. The Spooner Correspondence
• Chapter XXX. Regrets
• Chapter XXXI. The Duke and Duchess in Town
• Chapter XXXII. The World Becomes Cold
• Chapter XXXIII. The Two Gladiators
• Chapter XXXIV. The Universe
• Chapter XXXV. Political Venom
• Chapter XXXVI. Seventy-Two
• Chapter XXXVII. The Conspiracy
• Chapter XXXVIII. Once Again in Portman Square
• Chapter XXXIX. Cagliostro
• Chapter XL. The Prime Minister Is Hard Pressed
• Chapter XLI. “I Hope I’m Not Distrusted.”
• Chapter XLII. Boulogne
• Chapter XLIII. The Second Thunderbolt
• Chapter XLIV. The Browborough Trial
• Chapter XLV. Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Emilius
• Chapter XLVI. The Quarrel
• Chapter XLVII. What Came of the Quarrel
• Chapter XLVIII. Mr. Maule’s Attempt
• Chapter XLIX. Showing What Mrs. Bunce Said to the Policeman
• Chapter L. What the Lords and Commons Said About the Murder
• Chapter LI. “You Think It Shameful.”
• Chapter LII. Mr. Kennedy’s Will
• Chapter LIII. None but the Brave Deserve the Fair
• Chapter LIV. The Duchess Takes Counsel
• Chapter LV. Phineas in Prison
• Chapter LVI. The Meager Family
• Chapter LVII. The Beginning of the Search for the Key and the Coat
• Chapter LVIII. The Two Dukes
• Chapter LIX. Mrs. Bonteen
• Chapter LX. Two Days Before the Trial
• Chapter LXI. The Beginning of the Trial
• Chapter LXII. Lord Fawn’s Evidence
• Chapter LXIII. Mr. Chaffanbrass for the Defence
• Chapter LXIV. Confusion in the Court
• Chapter LXV. “I Hate Her!”
• Chapter LXVI. The Foreign Bludgeon
• Chapter LXVII. The Verdict
• Chapter LXVIII. Phineas After the Trial
• Chapter LXIX. The Duke’s First Cousin
• Chapter LXX. “I Will Not Go to Loughlinter.”
• Chapter LXXI. Phineas Finn Is Re-Elected
• Chapter LXXII. The End of the Story of Mr. Emilius and Lady Eustace
• Chapter LXXIII. Phineas Finn Returns to His Duties
• Chapter LXXIV. At Matching
• Chapter LXXV. The Trumpeton Feud Is Settled
• Chapter LXXVI. Madame Goesler’s Legacy
• Chapter LXXVII. Phineas Finn’s Success
• Chapter LXXVIII. The Last Visit to Saulsby
• Chapter LXXIX. At Last—At Last
• Chapter LXXX. Conclusion
• About the Author