An idealistic young Irishman enters Parliament and navigates love, money, and principle in Victorian political society. The second of Trollope's Palliser novels.
Books mentioned in Phineas Finn (2)
The Fair Maid of Perth by Walter Scott: “Do you remember the story of Conachar in the 'Fair Maid of Perth;'--how his heart refused to give him blood enough to fight?”
Don Juan by George Gordon Byron: “Madame Max was as steady in her seat and almost as slow as the mounted ghost in _Don Juan_.”