Can You Forgive Her?

Anthony Trollope

Oxford University Press, 1999 - Fiction - 928 pages

Alice Vavasor, a girl of independent spirit and means, is engaged to the paragon John Grey but, seemingly distressed by his perfection, she jilts him in favour of her less reputable cousin, George. Alice's story is interwoven with that of the early married life of her friend, Lady Glencora.

Contents

• CAN YOU FORGIVE HER?: 1
• Explanatory Notes II 419: 419
• Whos Who in Can You Forgive Her? II: 445

About the author

Anthony Trollope was born in London, England on April 24, 1815. In 1834, he became a junior clerk in the General Post Office, London. In 1841, he became a deputy postal surveyor in Banagher, Ireland. He was sent on many postal missions ending up as a surveyor general in the post office outside of London. His first novel, The Macdermots of Ballycloran, was published in 1847. His other works included Castle Richmond, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Lady Anna, The Two Heroines of Plumplington, and The Noble Jilt. He died after suffering from a paralytic stroke on December 6, 1882.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Can You Forgive Her?; Oxford World's Classics - Oxford University Press; Oxford world's classics; Volume 1 of Palliser novels, Anthony Trollope
• Author: Anthony Trollope
• Editor: Andrew Swarbrick
• Illustrated by: Lynton Lamb
• Contributors: Kate Flint, Norman St. John-Stevas
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1999
• ISBN: 019283469X, 9780192834690
• Length: 928 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh