Can You Forgive Her?

Name: Can You Forgive Her?
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781910660508

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: Timeless Classic
Language: English
Length: 732 pages
ISBN: 9781910660508
Published: 15 January 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Victorian society
romance
self-discovery
societal expectations
love triangle
political intrigue
personal ambition
female protagonist
emotional conflict
marriage choices

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"Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope is the first of the Palliser series, weaving a complex tapestry of relationships and societal expectations in Victorian England. The novel explores the dilemmas of its heroine, Alice Vavasor, who must choose between following her ambitions and succumbing to societal pressures. Caught between two suitors, her safe, predictable cousin George and the daring, politically inclined Grey, Alice’s journey is one of self-discovery and the search for genuine happiness amidst external influence and internal conflict.

Author

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) spent his days as a Post Office surveyor and his early hours at the novel — a clerk's discipline that produced an English county of clergy and a later London of money. Barchester Towers is the church as weather: preferment, gossip, a bishop's wife. The Way We Live Now is the same eye on speculation and the social lie. He wrote without apology for the method. Church, vote, and marriage sit in the same air.

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