A beautiful widow schemes to keep a diamond necklace she may not own, testing law and society. One of Trollope's sharpest Palliser novels.
Books mentioned in The Eustace Diamonds (6)
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: “There are Miss Edgeworth's novels down-stairs, and 'Pride and Prejudice' in my bed-room.”
Adam Bede by George Eliot: “I don't subscribe to Mudie's, because when I asked for 'Adam Bede,' they always sent me the 'Bandit Chief.”
Ivanhoe by Walter Scott: “The Ivanhoe that you know, did he not press Rebecca's hand?”
Queen Mab by Percy Bysshe Shelley: “She so believed it, that on the first morning of her arrival she took a little volume in her pocket, containing Shelley's "Queen Mab," and essayed to go down upon the rocks.”
The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser: “She had intended during this vacant time to master the "Faery Queen;" but the "Faery Queen" fared even worse than "Queen Mab;"”
The Speeches of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke: “You have, probably, never read Burke's speeches." "And I don't want to read them," said Lucy.”
Books that mention The Eustace Diamonds (1)
The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield: “Wuthering Heights ran into Emma, which gave way to The Eustace Diamonds, which faded into Hard Times, which ceded to The Woman in White.”