The Eustace Diamonds (Summarized Edition)

The Eustace Diamonds, third of Trollope's Palliser novels (1873), centers on Lizzie Eustace, a beguiling widow who clings to a contested family necklace she insists was a gift, though lawyers deem it an heirloom. Around this object Trollope stages legal skirmishes, social maneuvering, and a theft, blending omniscient irony with the pacing of sensation fiction à la Wilkie Collins. Contrasted with t...