Can You Forgive Her?, Volume 1

Anthony Trollope

Oxford University Press, 1973 - England - 427 pages

CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? is the first of the six Palliser novels. In this volume Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. He dissects the Victorian upper class. Issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe. But it is on women and their predicament that Trollope particularly focuses. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor. And each woman, being different and unique, has her own answer, from the uncomfortably married Lady Glencora to the coquettish Mrs. Greenow, to Alice's clear-headed cousin Kate.

Contents

• Mr Vavasor and His Daughter: 1
• George Vavasor the Wild: 34
• The Balcony at Basle: 43

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?, Volume 1; Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope; Volume 309 of Oxford paperbacks; Palliser novels, Anthony Trollope; The Palliser novels of Anthony Trollope, Anthony Trollope; Volumes 468-469 of The world's classics; Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882. Palliser novels; Volume 1 of Trollope, Anthony: [The Palliser novels]
• Author: Anthony Trollope
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1973
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Jun 15, 2010
• ISBN: 0192546112, 9780192546111
• Length: 427 pages