The central plot of "The Eustace Diamonds" (1872) involves the theft and ultimate discovery of a diamond necklace - the Eustace family heirloom. A splendid sense of the absurd permeates the novel and allows Trollope to examine "truth" in may contexts and at many levels of seriousness. Lizzie's unscrupulous lies do not prevent her final exposure, and it is, as Stephen Gill says in his Introduction, "this honesty, this clarity of vision that places Trollope with the greatest social novelists of the nineteenth century, with Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot."
- ISBN10 1434412946
- ISBN13 9781434412942
- Publish Date 20 September 2024 (first published December 1950)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Wildside Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 750
- Language English