Can You Forgive Her?: Introduction by A. O. J. Cockshut (Everyman's Library Classics) - Hardcover

Trollope, Anthony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679435956 ISBN 13: 9780679435952

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 1994

Synopsis

Anthony Trollope's stock-in-trade was the life of the great drawing rooms of mid-Victorian England, where the thirst for wealth and political power and the need for love continually formed and reformed in unexpected, illuminating combinations. Can You Forgive Her?, the story of Alice Vavasor, her conundrums in love, and her confusions about the rights and duties of a modern, is the first novel in his magnificent Palliser series; it is energized on every page by the affectionate and ironic delight Trollope felt in observing the entanglements of his splendid characters.

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Review:

"Anthony Trollope knew more about women than any other novelist of his time" (Joanna Trollope)

"He is not a soothing writer at all, in fact he's rather subversive. Nobody gets away with anything in Trollope" (Victoria Glendinning)

"Trollope is wonderful, a major novelist, a joy... particularly admire his empathy with his characters, and the way in which he describes women...unique among male novelists, better even than Henry James, in his ability to enter the lives of women characters, and women on their own" (P.D. James)

"Pithy and pungent, almost like Jane Austen" (Amanda Craig)

Book Description:

With sympathy and care, Trollope observes the romances of two controversial heroines in the first of his Palliser novels

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0679435956
• ISBN 13: 9780679435952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 952