The Duke's Children Complete

Extended edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by Steven Amarnick

Oxford World's Classics

The Duke's Children is a touching story of love, family relationships. loyalty, principles, horse-racing, flirtation, and debt, as the old Duke struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and the stubbornness of his children
Features an introduction written by Steven Amarnick, a leading authority on Trollope's work
This edition features a substanial amount of previously cut material, which was removed in order for the original book to be published. This restored version of The Duke's Children can be read as Trollope originally intended
The concluding novel in the Palliser series, The Duke's Children stands alone as well as being the perfect culmination to Trollope's superb sequence

The Duke's Children Complete

Extended edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by Steven Amarnick

Description

He was alone in the world, and there was no one of whom he could ask a question.

After the sudden death of his wife, two years after he has left office as Prime Minister, the Duke of Omnium must
become deeply involved with his children for the first time. They vex him enormously: with school expulsions,
vast gambling debts, and what he considers to be calamitous romantic attachments. He tries to compel them to
do what he wants, but they are not so easy to manage.

Even when his eldest child and heir, Lord Silverbridge, makes him proud by embarking upon a political career, the
Duke grapples with heartache. For Silverbridge becomes a Conservative rather than a Liberal, flouting the family
tradition. The relationship between father and son is drawn with remarkable subtlety, and the book as a whole
becomes a piercing, yet often humorous, exploration of change: how both the young and the old resist, tolerate,
or embrace it.

Trollope cut roughly 65,000 words, at a vulnerable moment in his career, to get the novel published, but
concluded rapidly that he had made a grievous error. After a painstaking reconstruction by a team of
researchers, The Duke's Children, the final book in Trollope's famed Palliser series, can now be read the way he first intended. It is a masterpiece of Victorian fiction.

The Duke's Children Complete

Extended edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by Steven Amarnick

Oxford World's Classics

The Duke's Children Complete

Extended edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by Steven Amarnick

Oxford World's Classics

Author Information

Anthony Trollope

Steven Amarnick is Professor of English at the City University of New York (Kingsborough Community College). In addition to his work on The Duke's Children, Prof. Amarnick has lectured and written extensively on other aspects of Trollope's fiction. Most recently, he is author of 'A Christmas Cavil: Trollope Re-Writes Dickens in the Outback,' in The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope (Edinburgh University Press, 2018); 'Can You Forgive Him?: Trollope, Jews, and Prejudice,' in The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope (Routledge, 2016); and 'Killing Mrs Proudie,' in Trollopiana (Winter 2012-13). He was also curator of the exhibition 'Anthony Trollope: The Art of Modesty,' at the Fales Collection, New York University (1998).

The Duke's Children Complete

Extended edition

Anthony Trollope
Edited by Steven Amarnick

Oxford World's Classics

Reviews and Awards

"[The Duke's Children], edited by the American scholar Steven Amarnick, now appears in paperback, as an Oxford World's Classic. At long last, all the children of "The Duke's Children" are fully born. [...] Entombed for more than a century, the extended, original "Duke's Children" arrives as a stroke of good fortune. The inclusion of 65,000 additional words allows for a statelier pace, a suitable spaciousness wherein a headstrong Plantagenet can reconcile himself to the invincible unreason of young love." -- Brad Leithauser, Wall Street Journal