Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026839404
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (268 download)
Book Synopsis Can You Forgive Her? (The Classic Unabridged Edition) by : Anthony Trollope
Download or read book Can You Forgive Her? (The Classic Unabridged Edition) written by Anthony Trollope and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can You Forgive Her? is a novel by Anthony Trollope. It is the first of six novels in the "Palliser" series. The novel follows three parallel stories of courtship and marriage and the decisions of three strong women: Alice Vavasor, her cousin Glencora Palliser, and her aunt Arabella Greenow. Early on, Alice asks the question "What should a woman do with her life? " This theme repeats itself in the dilemmas faced by the other women in the novel. Lady Glencora and her husband Plantagenet Palliser recur in the remainder of the Palliser series. Alice Vavasor, a young woman of twenty-four, is engaged to the wealthy and respectable and dependable, if unambitious and bland, John Grey. She had previously been engaged to her cousin George, but she broke it off after he went through a wild period. John, trusting in his love, makes only the slightest protest of Alice's planned tour of Switzerland with her cousin Kate, George's sister, even when he learns George is to go with them as male protector. Influenced by the romance of Switzerland, Kate's contriving to restore George to Alice's favour, and her own misgivings with John's shortcomings, Alice jilts her second fianc.̌ ...