In the canon
The Prime Minister
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1876
- Pages
- Pages 700
The Prime Minister of England reads a hostile paragraph in a newspaper and cannot sleep for it. Plantagenet Palliser has wanted all his life to be useful and honest, and power, when it comes, turns out to be a coalition held together by nothing at all, propped up by a wife who's genius he cannot bear.
He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.
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