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The Pallisers

by Hugh David, Ronald Wilson, Martin Lisemore, Simon Raven

Politics and governmentSocial life and customsMan-woman relationshipsHusband and wifeAristocracy (Social class)Upper class familiesDramaHistorical television programs

A sprawling BBC saga of wealth, passion, and power, set in the palatial country houses and grand Mayfair salons of mid-Victorian England. Chronicles twenty years in the life of an aristocratic dynasty moving through high society in the heyday of Queen Victoria's reign. Based on Anthony Trollope's six political novels-called the finest sequence of fiction ever written about British Parliamentary life.

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Book data: Open Library