Introduction | Palliser Week

right so hello and welcome back to books and things and welcome to pallets a week [Music] so today I'm beginning another of my like author slash series week which means every day for the next week I will be talking about all of the books in the palace a series by Antony Trump the power series is also known as the parliamentary novels personally I think the parliamentary doubles as a name sort of makes a bit more sense for the series and but there was a television adaptation of the series in the 80s I think called the palace the series which is why the books tend to be known much more now as the palaces and that's what I'll be calling them through most of this week so like I said I do think the parliamentary novels with is a helpful term for them as well the power it's a family feature very heavily in three books in the series but not so much in the other three the palettes a series is a series of interconnected novels much like Antony Charles Bassett sir Chronicles and over the next six days I'm going to be talking about each of the six books in the power series I'm going to be talking about them in the order that they come in the series book number one can you forgive her a book to Phineas spin book three the useless diamonds for Phineas redo five the Prime Minister and six the jig's children I love all of these books a lot and possibly accepts NES or do which I think I just like I don't think I love that book but the other five especially you can you forgive that the Prime Minister and the Jews children which our way through favorites and are all really really good and it's definitely a series I would really really recommend so as with the passage of Chronicles this is an interconnected series of novels so it is not like a direct series although some books relate much more to other books in the series but all of these books kind of take place in the same world in the same system with a lot of overlapping characters all of the books have characters in that feature in other books and all the books kind of connect to each other after even though each book has its own like individual plot line that is contained within the book the characters do crack up unlocks in each other's books and some of the books rely very heavily on previous plot lines from other books one thing that that there are pallets er no walls all the parliamentary dolls deal with a lot is politics and Parliament hence the other name big the parliamentary novels mr. howitzer whom is the central character of many books in this series is a politician and sits in the House of Commons for the Liberal Party and is in government and we follow his career through a lot of these books as well as the career of various men around him we follow politics a lot in this series the majority of books contain an election or two and a lot of stuff about Parliament which I find it really interesting and I think is in general really well done especially in the prime minister where I think the politics is explored fantastically and that's the book where I find the politics the most interesting but among the politics that is all of trumps usual stuff a lot about marriage and family and class and love and a lot about personal relationships between people and connections between people and all of the stuff that Trollope does best one of my favorite things about the series is the way we follow the palaces and the relationship between mr. Pulitzer and Glenn Cora is one of my favorites in all of literature it is fantastically done and shows trollope at his absolute best exploring marriage and friendship and gender dynamics and power in the Victorian period exploring politics and difficult people and family and so many fantastic things it's just absolutely well done belong with them there are so many other amazing characters around them and I would tell you like there are some fantastic female characters in the palace of books one of my favorite things about the way that the parents of books looks at politics is how involved women are and politics and how interested women are in politics within these books and how so many of the female characters are fantastic and also really engage with the political world as well I would say as a series I prefer the boss etre Chronicles to the pallets of books I really love the palace the series a lot but I don't think I love them quite as much as the Basinger Chronicle is partly because as I said there is booked for Phineas reduce and which I don't love and which annoyed me in many ways and that's my least favorite Anthony Trollope book so that kind of drives the parts of series to have a little bit also I would say that the bar such Chronicles is very much concerned with church politics and religion and I find out fascinating the pallets of novels is very much concerned in kind of place of that with Parliament and and politics which I do find really interesting but I don't find quite as interesting as the church politics in the bar such Chronicle was also I would say and there are quite a few aristocratic characters in the bar such Chronicles but there were also a lot more like middle / upper-middle class characters and whereas the power to novels is really really aristocratic and and sometimes I just sometimes I get a bit tired of all of these people with a lot of money saying that I have enough money sometimes I want to read about some more ordinary Victorians and not just the lords and ladies but although I love the bus at 20 was a bit more I do still love the power series a lot that I was so highly highly recommend it and I do think it is a fantastic book series to read I wanted to talk a little bit about like reading order for the palace' books and for Anthony Trollope various books as a whole I would personally recommend reading the Bassett chronicles in fall all of those six books which are the Walden bushed the towers dr. Thorne Franny parsonage the small house Ellington and the last chronicles buff set before you start reading the pallets and novels the reason for this is that mr. Pulitzer who as I said is one of the main characters throughout the series and is introduced in the fifth book of the Basra chronicles it small house at Alton if you read the palace of series first you will slightly spoil the subplot in which he features in a small house of Altona I don't think that's necessarily the end of the world but I do think it's better if you have introduced yourself to mr. pouncer through that little subplot first because I do you think it's really telling about mr. Palin sir more importantly than that which is quite a minor subplot in the small house Anton and the fifth book in the pallets of novels the Prime Minister completely spoils dr. Thorne so I would absolutely not read the Prime Minister until you've read dr. Thor which is the third book in the Bassett's Chronicles and because the ending of dr. Thorne is entirely told to you in the prime minister because a couple of characters from dr. Thorne feature in the prime minister so absolutely I would not recommend reading the Prime Minister and to you for a job Thorne bizarrely the palace' series also contains some spoilers for Anthony Trollope's standalone novel the way we live now which I wasn't expecting and I got quite a like lovely surprise when some characters from the way we'd have now turned up because the way we live now is one of my favorite Anthony Trollope books and I wasn't expecting that I wouldn't say this is a huge deal there are minor spoilers for the way we live now in the Prime Minister and the Jukes children if you've read the Prime Minister of the Jutes children and then you read like the way of now three years later to be honest you probably won't even remember that you encountered those spoilers and they're also quite minor they're not for like any huge plot points or anything like that it's more relatively small there is a one character and called dolly Longstaff who appears in the juice children who also appeared in the way if now I don't I find it hard to tell if you'd be able to fully understand him in the juice children if you hadn't read the way we have now I don't think it's the end of the world if you read the Power Cells before you've read the way we have now that's fine in general I would say like a lot of trans characters turn up in a lot of his other books Charlotte's books all kind of all set in the same world so I think he you know you don't be too worried about it but certainly I would not recommend reading the Prime Minister until you've read dr. Thorne I would also highly highly highly recommend reading the pallets of books in order this like the bar such Chronicles is a series of interconnected novels so you could pick one up and read it and it would probably make some sense to you but I wouldn't recommend it at all because all of the books in the series spoil previous books in the series I would also say that the pallets of books are even more closely wound together than the bar such Chronicles I think you could probably read phineas Finn and these diamonds without having read the previous book or two and it would make sense but the last three books in this series Phineas were doing the prime minister of the Jeep's children they're not worth reading unless you read the first two books like Phineas radoo is a very very very direct sequel to Phineas in like it wouldn't work unless you'd read Phineas then the juice children is a very direct sequel to the prime minister and the Prime Minister is a very direct sequel to can you forgive her Phineas Finn and fitness for Duke and the use of science as well actually the use of stones is probably the one that is tied the least closely to all of the others but everything is tied together pretty closely and you need to read these in Auto really from book one on to book six and yes that means you have to read Phineas or du which is not so good but you get to read the Prime Minister's straight afterwards and that is true Trollope gold I feel like that's all I have to say I love the pallets of books a lot I'm really looking forward to talking to you about all of them over the next six days and hearing your thoughts on them as well if you've read them so we will start off tomorrow with can you forgive her and run on to Sunday when we will finally be talking about the last but in this area the jig's children all of the videos this week will be spoiler free and entirely I will not be spoiling the books I'm talking about and I'll also not be spoiling previous books in the series which means in some of the videos I'm going to be talking very very vaguely about certain plot prints and there are spoilers for previous books but actually mean everyone can watch the videos even if you've never read a tronic book before in your life and your cell get something out of them and yeah that is it for today thank you so much for watching please let me know down the comments if you've read any of the perhaps of series if you started if you're halfway through if you've never looked at them if you finish them let me know your thoughts down below and I'm back tomorrow to talk about can you forgive her

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Length: 9min 38sec (578 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 14 2019