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"This gracefully written work is perfectly read by Whitfield, who successfully evokes
the Victorian era."Booklist

"The polished excitement that animates Whitfield's reading comes across richly and compels the
listener's attention."AudioFile

Phineas Finn is an Irish M.P.A. climbing the political ladder, largely through the assistance of his
string of lovers. The questions he is forced to ask himself about honesty, independence, and
parliamentary democracy are questions still asked today.

Phineas Finn is the second of Anthony Trollope's six Palliser novels. While each is a story
within itself, together the volumes comprise a large, coherent composition that captures the fashions,
slang, manners and politics of two decades. Beginning with this segment of the Palliser novels,
Trollope painted an unrivaled portrait of Parliamentary political society in the high Victorian period.
Trollope's understanding of the institutions of mid-Victorian England and the unobtrusive irony which
informs his sympathetic vision of human fallibility is a hallmark of these stories.

Anthony Trollope (1815-82) is most famous for his portrait of the professional and landed classes of Victorian England, especially in his Palliser and Barsetshire novels. Brought up amidst debt and deprivation, Trollope inherited a writing ambition from his mother, and famously disciplined himself to wake up every morning at 5:30 a.m. and write 250 words every quarter of an hour. While carving out a successful career at the post office, he got his first novel published in 1847, and eventually achieved fame and fortune with forty-seven novels and some sixteen other books. His Autobiography is a satisfied and fascinating look at his life and his own character, as well as other famous literary figures and politics of the times.

Earphones Awards recipient Robert Whitfield was born in England and worked for the BBC for ten years as a radio news announcer and also worked as a narrator for the Royal National Institute for the Blind in London. In addition to narrating for Blackstone Audiobooks, he involves himself in numerous stage-acting projects in the United States and Europe.