Eustace Diamonds

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Historical Fiction, Crime & Mystery Fiction

Authors: Anthony Trollope In Year : 1871

Book Language: English

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Lizzie Greystock
Lady Eustace
Lucy Morris
Frank Greystock
The Eustace Necklace
Lady Linlithgow's Mission
Mr. Burke's Speeches
The Conquering Hero Comes
Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought
Lizzie and Her Lover
Lord Fawn at His Office
"I Only Thought of It"
Showing What Frank Greystock Did
"Doan't Thou Marry for Munny"
"I'll Give You a Hundred Guinea Brooch"
Certainly an Heirloom
The Diamonds Are Seen in Public
"And I Have Nothing to Give"
"As My Brother"
The Diamonds Become Troublesome
"Ianthe's Soul"
Lady Eustace Procures a Pony for the Use of Her Cousin
Frank Greystock's First Visit to Portray
Showing What Frank Greystock Thought About Marriage
Mr. Dove's Opinion
Mr. Gowran Is Very Funny
Lucy Morris Misbehaves
Mr. Dove in His Chambers
"I Had Better Go Away"
Mr. Greystock's Troubles
Frank Greystock's Second Visit to Portray
Mr. and Mrs. Hittaway in Scotland
"It Won't Be True"
Lady Linlithgow at Home
Too Bad for Sympathy
Lizzie's Guests
Lizzie's First Day
Nappie's Grey Horse
Sir Griffin Takes an Unfair Advantage
"You Are Not Angry?"
"Likewise the Bears in Couples Agree"
Sunday Morning
Life at Portray
A Midnight Adventure
The Journey to London
Lucy Morris in Brook Street
Matching Priory
Lizzie's Condition
Bunfit and Gager
In Hertford Street
Confidence
Mrs. Carbuncle Goes to the Theatre
Lizzie's Sick-Room
"I Suppose I May Say a Word"
Quints or Semitenths
Job's Comforters
Humpty Dumpty
"The Fiddle with One String"
Mr. Gowran Up in London
"Let It Be As Though It Had Never Been"
Lizzie's Great Friend
"You Know Where My Heart Is"
The Corsair Is Afraid
Lizzie's Last Scheme
Tribute
The Aspirations of Mr. Emilius
The Eye of the Public
The Major
"I Cannot Do It"
Alas!
Lizzie Is Threatened with the Treadmill
Lizzie Triumphs
Lizzie's Last Lover
Lizzie at the Police-Court
Lord George Gives His Reasons
Lizzie Returns to Scotland
The Story of Lucy Morris Is Concluded
The Trial
Once More at Portray
What Was Said About It All at Matching

Lizzie Greystock, a fortune-hunter who ensnares the sickly, dissipated Sir Florian Eustace, is soon left a very wealthy widow and mother. While clever and beautiful, Lizzie has several character flaws; the greatest of these is an almost pathological delight in lying, even when it cannot benefit her. Before he dies, the disillusioned Sir Florian discovers all this, but does not think to change the generous terms of his will.

The diamonds of the book's title are a necklace, a Eustace family heirloom that Sir Florian gave to Lizzie to wear. Lizzie attempts to hold onto them, much to the irritation of the longtime family lawyer, Mr Camperdown. The Eustaces find themselves in an awkward position. On the one hand, the diamonds are a valuable heirloom to which Lizzie may not have a legal claim, but on the other, they do not want to antagonize the mother of the heir to the family estate (Lizzie having only a life interest).

Meanwhile, after a respectable period of mourning, Lizzie searches for another husband, and "the plot thickens". (Summary from Wikipedia)

This is the third of Trollope’s six “Palliser” novels. LibriVox recordings of other novels in the series are available:
1-Can You Forgive Her?
2-Phineas Finn, the Irish Member
3-The Eustace Diamonds
4-Phineas Redux
5-The Prime Minister
6-The Duke’s Children