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Can You Forgive Her?
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 27 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the six Palliser novels. Here Trollope examines parliamentary election and marriage, politics and privacy. As he dissects the Victorian upper class, issues and people shed their pretenses under his patient, ironic probe.
Alice Vavasor cannot decide whether to marry her ambitious but violent cousin George or the upright and gentlemanly John Grey—and so finds herself accepting and rejecting each of them in turn. She is increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation—a situation contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora, forced by “sagacious heads” to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent her true love, 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.
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- E. Jalal
- 21-06-24
Very enjoyable
This was my first Trollope. Superbly narrated by Simon Vance. An insight into the the trials and tribulations of relationships in the upper classes in England of the 1860s.
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- Jill Grundy
- 22-07-24
Victorian susceptibility
Great characters and well read. Somewhat laborious descriptions and self flagellation by Alice
But a satisfactory happy ending.
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- Amazon Customer
- 02-11-21
Good read
Great thank you much enjoyed the book and hope to hear more bt Simon vance
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- WEP
- 12-03-23
Great
A fascinating and engaging story beautifully read by Simon Vance. Soap opera in many ways but with huge class and in depth human insight.
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