The Eustace Diamonds

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The Eustace Diamonds is a Victorian novel by Anthony Trollope that satirically explores greed, social ambition, and moral ambiguity through the controversy surrounding a disputed family heirloom.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Victorian novel
novel
satirical novel
author Anthony Trollope
centralTheme class and social status
greed
legal ownership
marriage and property
moral ambiguity
social ambition
copyrightStatus public domain
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
firstPublishedIn The Fortnightly Review
followedBy Phineas Redux
genre realist fiction
satire
social novel
hasAdaptation radio adaptation
hasCharacterType anti-heroine
hasHeirloom Eustace family diamonds
language English
literaryMovement realism
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
literarySignificance major work in Trollope's Palliser series
mainCharacter Frank Greystock
Lizzie Eustace
Lord Fawn
Lucy Morris
narrativeConcern conflict between personal desire and social duty
tension between law and morality
narrativeStyle third-person omniscient
notableObjectInPlot diamond necklace
partOfSeries Palliser novels
plotFocus controversy over a disputed family heirloom
precededBy Phineas Finn
protagonist Lizzie Eustace
publicationDate 1873
publicationFormat serial publication
publisher Chapman and Hall
satirizes Victorian high society
legal and political institutions
marriage market
seriesNumber third novel in the Palliser series
setting English countryside
London
settingPeriod 19th-century England
timeOfAction early 1870s


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