The Eustace Diamonds (Annotated)

The Eustace Diamonds (1873), the third novel in Anthony Trollope's Palliser sequence, is a brilliant social and legal comedy centered on Lizzie Eustace, a beautiful, unscrupulous widow whose claim to a magnificent diamond necklace entangles aristocratic privilege, property law, and moral performance. With characteristic irony and patient realism, Trollope examines the Victorian marriage market, th...