The Centre of Things
Subtitle: Political Fiction in Britain from Disraeli to the Present
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 22, 1992
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780044455936
First sentence: TOWARDS THE END of Trollope's novel The Prime Minister (1876) the Duke of Omnium takes his cabinet colleague Phineas Finn to his favourite view on his estate of Matching.