on February 11, 2008. HECK NO. As stated in a previous review, this story contains many chapters and thus many readers. I plan on reading the next two books this year and I will finish up in 2019. Possible oversight by Trollope as there is no mention of her death and in The Duke's Children it is made clear that the Omniums have only three children, Lord Silverbridge, Lord Gerald and Lady Mary. 150 years later! This was an excellent book to start with and I have to say that it was surprisingly readable. In the end politics and Palliser won out! Trollope's focus on the upper class or the more education is no less importa. Was it over 800 pages? 803130. It’s all there in CAN YOU FORGIVE HER? I had trouble understanding one of the prime protagonists - Alice. I was 35 years old, newly married and with a child on the way, and the question, what must a woman do with her life was so pertinent. Go and boil your head, Stephen King. I'll even forgive John Grey and Plantagenet Palliser who irritated me so much in the beginning. Now, for the first time, the shadow of … the Duke of Omnium throws itself over the incidents and personages so far as these belong to politics … Today, Can You Forgive Her? At the centre is Alice Vavasor whom the author asks us to forgive as she begins the story by jilting her very eligible and nearly perfect fiancée. Twined round this story in counterpoint are the mildly comic affairs of the Widow Greenow (whom most of us will forget): and the marital fortunes of the Pallisers. She had assumed the command of the ship, and had thrown it upon the rocks, and she felt that she never ought to take the captain's place again. In an interesting New Yorker piece, marking the bicentenary of Trollope’s birth in 2015, Adam Gopnik describes him as not a “sentence-by-sentence writer” or a “scene-by-scene writer,” but rather a “character-by-character writer.”. Consider upgrading to a modern browser for an improved experience. Trollope at his best shows the insight of Austen, the scene-painting and quirky characters of Dickens, a flair for almost slapstick comedy that reminds me of Shakespeare, and th. I am so pleased to say that I have finally discovered why so many readers love Anthony Trollope. I'll even forgive John Grey and Plantagenet Palliser who irritated me so much in the beginning. This is an excellent, if long, read. by Anthony Trollope – review. 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. © 2020 The Trollope Society is registered charity no. Yes. is the first of the Palliser’s series, Trollope’s more political novels. We’d love your help. Yes, I'll forgive you and Lady Glencora and Kate for your poor judgement. No point in rehashing the synopsis but this lengthy novel has a bit of everything - romance, politics, humor and pathos. 7 unread / 7: StevenTX, March 2015 Have always meant to read "something" but never quite sure where to start. Start by marking “Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope : 106 unread / 106; luvamystery65, September 2017: Literary Centennials : 1815: Anthony Trollope - Palliser series I: Can You Forgive Her? Can you Forgive Her? Introduction by Professor David Skilton I finished today. Now I can enjoy some of these characters for five more books. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. It introduces the reader to Plantagenet and Glencora Palliser, as they court, marry, and as Plantagenet sets out on his political career, which is carried on in the foreground or background throughout the series. is the first in a series of six Trollope novels dealing broadly with 19th Century English political scene.