Can You Forgive Her? eBook Anthony Trollope
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Can You Forgive Her?
Can You Forgive Her? eBook Anthony Trollope
This review is for the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Paperback version of this book just to make others aware. If you are visual impaired this is a wonderful size for you as it is 8.5X11. If you are not visual impaired it is a huge book to hold while reading and I just wanted to warn the reader as to what you are purchasing. This is nothing against the publisher as they have it listed specifically when you are looking at the book, however I did not notice the size of the book so that is on me. Also I will go as far is to call this more of a "copy" of the book. This "copy" I received I am assuming is allowed to be a "copy" because it most probably passed any copy law dates as it is an old book so I am not saying there is anything shady here. The inside pages look like large computer print type and the cover is a pixelated copy of a picture so when I received it I was quite surprised at the book I received. Again, I am going to assume I missed something in the description but perhaps the description should be updated so the purchaser knows what they are purchasing more than just the size.As for the actual book I am reading it in combination of listening to the Audiobook (while driving) and as I have not completed it yet I do very much enjoy the book. My four stars are for now how I am enjoying the story but the copy of the actual book I would put lower and alas am going to put onus on myself for perhaps misreading what I ordered. Definitely worth the read and looking forward to reading more of Trollope's books. Doctor Thorne the mini-series is what got me here to try another of Trollope's stories.
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Can You Forgive Her? eBook Anthony Trollope Reviews
This review is for the free edition. The formatting is perfectly adequate and the table of contents is linked and works just fine. However, although it contains a list of illustrations, and the illustration captions are embedded in the text, the illustrations themselves are missing. There's no front- or back matter, either -- not even a date of publication.
As for the story itself -- Henry James is supposed to have quipped about the title, "Yes, and forget her too." And Alice Vavasor is certainly not the world's most dynamic heroine. In fact, her much livelier co-heroine, Lady Glencora, twice calls her a prude to her face -- and I agree. Yet I found Alice's moral dilemma -- which is, basically, whether she can or should forgive herself after jilting not one but two men -- both baffling and kind of fascinating. She's an interesting character in that she combines a very modern sense of moral agency and self-determination, as well as control of her own fortune, with an unquestioning adherence to Victorian social mores.
It's a long book, and there are stretches of it that are thoroughly put-down-able. But it's worth reading for Trollope's wonderfully memorable, well-rounded characters and often hilarious social satire. It's also fascinating for anyone struggling to understand a Victorian view of women's place in the world. For zero dollars, what have you got to lose?
Well, reintroduction to Plantagenet, who made an appearance in "The Small House at Allington" of the Barsetshire series. I didn't think the London parliamentary politics and romantic trials and tribulations of Lady Glencora Palliser and Alice Vavasor could hold my interest as well as the rural county goings-on of landowners and clergy portrayed in Trollope's previous Barsetshire series; indeed, Alice's inexplicable (to me and pretty much all of her relations) rejection of the handsome and steadfast John Grey for the despicable George Vavasor truly tried my patience! Although I sympathized with Alice's rather lonely life (distant, uninvolved father, mother long dead), I quickly became frustrated with her gullibility about George and susceptibility to his sister Kate's manipulation and didn't know if I cared to read on - but was hooked once Glencora and Plantagenet entered the story.
Alice decides she could not be a good wife to John and is better suited temperamentally to her previous love, cousin George (definite uck factor there although I know it was common enough at the time); it helps that sister Kate is Alice's best friend and does all she can behind the scenes to maneuver Alice away from John. There was a real uck factor as well in Kate's slavish, rather creepy devotion to her brother, which certainly didn't do anything to curb his ruthless, self-centered sense of entitlement. George is introduced to us as "wild" and definitely comes across as a bad boy character, but devolves into a thuggish bully who cares only for himself and his wants, blaming everyone around him for his bad fortune and threatening anyone who dares cross his path - a real psycho, in my opinion! When he is at his worst and actually threatening Alice for money to fund his parliamentary election and she goes along with it because she is so wracked with guilt for jilting John and feels she deserves such treatment, I wanted to smack her! I loved how Trollope balanced Alice's almost masochistic guilt with Glencora's irreverent humor and spunk; as always, his clear-eyed appreciation and subtle understanding of the motives of his female characters is a joy to read.
Plantagenet and Glencora are reluctant newlyweds when we meet them; he is a rising man in politics, on target to become the next Chancellor of the Exchequer despite his youth and she is a great heiress. Glencora has been forced by her concerned relations to put aside her true love Burgo Fitzgerald, a beautifully handsome wastrel desperately in need of her fortune, and marry instead the worthy Plantagenet. They don't love each other and Glencora is desperately unhappy, even contemplating leaving her husband for her former lover; she and Alice are distantly related and renew their friendship as both women struggle to come to grips with the sad realities of their romantic choices.
Trollope also gifts us with comic relief in the form of several delightful minor characters (obnoxious Mr. Bott, the flaky Duchess of St. Bungay, snarky Mrs. Sparkes) and a love triangle between Kate's widowed Aunt Greenow and her two beaux Captain Bellfield and Mr. Cheeseacre. I was tickled by the scrapping and jostling for favor between the penniless but dashing former soldier and the blustering, greedy farmer, and dazzled by the widow's masterful handling of both men. As always I am amazed at Trollope's ability to draw us into his Victorian world of politics, society, love and money, and make clear the Byzantine rules governing it all! Highly recommended.
The first of the so-called Palliser novels, this long novel chronicles three love affairs, told almost exclusively from the woman's point of view. Its strength lies in the complexity and appeal of its principal characters they are not faced with simple choices but with all the bumps and warts of potential marital partners, and although the reader may side with one choice or another, by the conclusion we have three marriages which may or may not work out. I was totally absorbed---others may find dragged out. But by the time you finish the book, you have learned a great deal about the intricacies of choosing a marriage partner, the workings of the British Parliament and the importance of being able to attach M.P. to one's name, and the social mores of British society in the nineteenth century.
This review is for the CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Paperback version of this book just to make others aware. If you are visual impaired this is a wonderful size for you as it is 8.5X11. If you are not visual impaired it is a huge book to hold while reading and I just wanted to warn the reader as to what you are purchasing. This is nothing against the publisher as they have it listed specifically when you are looking at the book, however I did not notice the size of the book so that is on me. Also I will go as far is to call this more of a "copy" of the book. This "copy" I received I am assuming is allowed to be a "copy" because it most probably passed any copy law dates as it is an old book so I am not saying there is anything shady here. The inside pages look like large computer print type and the cover is a pixelated copy of a picture so when I received it I was quite surprised at the book I received. Again, I am going to assume I missed something in the description but perhaps the description should be updated so the purchaser knows what they are purchasing more than just the size.
As for the actual book I am reading it in combination of listening to the Audiobook (while driving) and as I have not completed it yet I do very much enjoy the book. My four stars are for now how I am enjoying the story but the copy of the actual book I would put lower and alas am going to put onus on myself for perhaps misreading what I ordered. Definitely worth the read and looking forward to reading more of Trollope's books. Doctor Thorne the mini-series is what got me here to try another of Trollope's stories.
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