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  • Published: 27 June 1974
  • ISBN: 9780140430868
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $29.99

Can You Forgive Her?




Trollope's revealing story about the morals of marriage

Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey - and finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers to pardon Alice for her transgression of the Victorian moral code, Trollope created a telling and wide-ranging account of the social world of his day.

  • Published: 27 June 1974
  • ISBN: 9780140430868
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 864
  • RRP: $29.99

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About the author

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 – 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.

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