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Can You Forgive Her? Kindle Edition
- ISBN-13978-1376400731
- PublisherSagwan Press
- Publication dateNovember 15, 2017
- LanguageEnglish
- File size2477 KB
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- ASIN : B077J6JL6X
- Publisher : Sagwan Press (November 15, 2017)
- Publication date : November 15, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 2477 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 305 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : B0BT6FV4V8
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Customers find the plot interesting and engaging. They describe the book as a pleasant, enjoyable read with vivid and well-developed characters. The humor is described as witty and lovable. Readers appreciate the old-fashioned illustrations. However, some feel the content lacks essential features like a table of contents or Go-To capability, and the book ends in the middle of the story without any introductory material. Opinions differ on the writing quality - some find it well-written, while others consider it too long.
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Customers enjoy the plot. They find it interesting and engaging, with numerous subplots and minor characters. The book is described as a sprawling work of fiction that chronicles three love affairs from multiple perspectives.
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"...Like all the great writers, Trollope understands so much about human nature and why people act the way they do, then is able to infuse that..." Read more
"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...." Read more
"...in particular, is one of Trollope's most inspired creations; vivacious, outspoken, thoroughly unsuited to the formal, humorless Plantagenet, she's..." Read more
Customers enjoy the book's readability. They find it enjoyable, relaxing, and a good rainy-day read. Readers appreciate the well-developed characters and their memorable qualities. The book is considered an excellent starting point for new readers.
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"...in the upper- and upper-middle classes The novel is stocked with memorable characters, above all the spirited Lady Glencora, introduced here as..." Read more
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"...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..." Read more
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- Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2015“Can You Forgive Her?” sees Anthony Trollope at his best and wisest as he maps the lives and loves of half-a-dozen characters, charting their yearnings, disappointments and, finally, triumphs. The story centers around Alice Vavasor and Lady Glencora, two women who search for better lives only to end up falling in love with the wrong men.
Alice “had by degrees filled herself with a vague idea that there was a something to be done; a something over and beyond or perhaps altogether beside that marrying and having two children; -- if she only knew what it was.” Glencora marries for power and position, forsaking the rake she thinks she loves. Both women end up regretting their choice of partner. One of them ends up accepting her fate.
A massive book with numerous subplots and minor characters, “Can You Forgive Her?” showcases Trollope’s ability to map scenes and choreograph his characters’ movements -- both their literal stage directions and figurative yearnings of the heart – with cinematic and psychological precision. (A crucial set-piece set during a ball that involves Glencora’s lover trying to steal her away while her husband watches is simply breathtaking in its suspense.)
The first in Trollope’s celebrated Palliser series of novels, “Can You Forgive Her?” sets the tone and establishes the central themes that run through the entire sequence. Trollope here is mostly occupied with love and politics, and the intersection between the two. Unlike his loveable Barchester books, the Palliser novels have a darker undercurrent, with a real sense of menace and some well-earned cynicism.
When one of the many men of power who appear in this book proclaims, “A desire for wealth is the source of all progress. Civilization comes from what men call greed,” it’s almost as if Trollope were writing for the 21st century.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2016I am reviewing the EDITION primarily--as it appeared on my Kindle Voyage. I believe this was a total freebie, or else maybe a 99-cent edition. It's entirely legible, and I don't think there are errors. But here's what you need to know about the formatting:
1) I'm assuming that the text comes from an illustrated edition from which the illustrations have been stripped. Sprinkled here and there throughout the text are very short passages (maybe part of a sentence) that one will recognize from having just them. I imagine that they are captions for the absent illustrations. I found that confusing at first until I realized what was likely going on.
2) The narrative is occasionally furthered through characters' letters to other characters. On the page (or rather, screen), these are formatted with the text centered--so that they have ragged margins both right and left. This drives me nuts when I see it on web pages (and once, in an expensive textbook!) as a misguided treatment of verse. It's a little irritating to me to find the letters appearing this way in the Kindle version of the novel.
3) There are, of course, no annotations. I will have to consult a well-edited modern edition if I wish to understand the niceties of running for Parliament in the 1860s, or to understand the nuances I presume I am expected to glean about characters from the long chapter about a fox-hunt.
Bottom line about the edition: since it was free (or very cheap), I'm content.
As for the novel itself: I am no Trollopian, but here's what I know: Can You Forgive Her is the first in the Palliser series, and it is readable and at times actually quite funny while it providing a devastating picture of the condition of young women in the upper- and upper-middle classes The novel is stocked with memorable characters, above all the spirited Lady Glencora, introduced here as rebellious young wife, and the redoutable Mrs. Greenow,. Young (marriageable or married) women of the upper and upper-middle classes, the novel insists, must knuckle under to male authority, to respectability, to family pressure, to social expectation, and to biological imperatives. They must renounce their wills in almost everything, They must,\if they are members of the titled classes, produce an heir, or incur generalized disappointment. In short, they must be assimilated to the Borg--resistance is futile. The only really desirable condition for a woman is that of a rich widow, for then it is possible to do what you like and marry again for love or something like it, and assert your own will and get your own way. One goes to Trollope, I think, for an analysis of society, but not for a critique. The narrator seems quite cheerful about the state of affairs he has so meticulously anatomized.
Top reviews from other countries
- JPakReviewed in Australia on April 12, 2021
1.0 out of 5 stars Not the real deal
This book reads like it’s been translated into English by google translate. Don’t buy it.
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José JuanReviewed in Spain on December 12, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars La primera de la serie Palliser
Es la primera novela de la serie Palliser, y se hace un poco lenta a veces, pero es muy interesante porque se ve y comprende muy bien la vida, mentalidad y actividades de la clase media-alta y alta de la Inglaterra de esa época, la política inglesa del momento, etc. Y las siguientes novelas, aunque independientes, repiten personajes como Lady Glencora McCluskey, que es favorita de muchos lectores.
- Anthony MarinelliReviewed in Canada on October 28, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars good novel of alice and her two fiance and the romantic and political intrigues of lady glencora and her husband the palliser
One of the all time classic novels from the hand of Anthony Trollope who has written so many...here we have alice who has one fiancé in mr grey whom she soon drops to begin an affair with the scandalous cousin George who is egged on by cousin kate and they begin an affair or rather rejoin an old affair which was broken up when alice went with mr grey and soon she breaks off a second romance with George whom she deems unworthy mixed into all this are kate's aunt and her affairs with mr cheeseacre and mr bellfield one of whom she will marry. It all makes for fun reading and the novel turns grim as George becomes increasingly evil and is written out of his grandfather's will and attempts to murder mr grey for interfering in his life and his romance with alice but he fails in his attempts and soon is written out of the novel and we are left to reconsider whether alice will once again marry mr grey. The on again off again romantic adventures of alice makes for fun reading and the novel is well written and here the accent lies on politics and not so much on religion as there are no divines to whittle away our attention..the focus is all on the house of commons and this brings us to the pallisers..
This is the first of the six great Palliser novels and here we have alice's cousin lady glencora who is entranced by burgo fitgerald but gives up her romance to marry a Palliser and begins an affray with the pallisers and the house of commons and it gives Trollope an excuse to talk politics about a budget minister and the various people who make it into glencora's household through her husband. They have trouble having a baby and glencora loves alice and often invites her to her house and for excursions but she eventually gives up on her affair with burgo and stays true to the pallisers and on a trip she takes with alice alice is reunited with mr grey and they decide to exchange nuptials and lady glencora becomes pregnant and they all return to England which makes for a happy ending to a novel one really does not want to put down and one only wishes that it will go on a nd on but stop it must at this point. Startling good novel by Trollope. RECOMMENDED!!
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Brexit-Gegner aus EnglandReviewed in Germany on March 8, 2017
5.0 out of 5 stars Hochadel, Vergebung und Feminismus
Anthony Trollope (1815- 1882): Can You Forgive Her? Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Dinah Birch. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press [Oxford World's Classics], 2012 (New Edition). ISBN 978-0-19-957817-7.
Dieser Roman, der erste in Trollopes politischer Palliser-Serie, folgte unmittelbar auf den fünften Roman der Barchester-Serie, The Small House at Allington, und greift u. a. die Geschichte von Plantagenet Palliser und dessen Ehe mit Lady Glencora M'Cluskie auf, eine Geschichte, die im "Small House at Allington" kurz zusammengefasst wurde. Hier erfahren wir, dass Lady Glencora von einer unkonventionellen Eheschließung mit dem armen Taugenichts Burgo Fitzgerald träumte und nur durch das beherzte Eingreifen ihrer hochadligen Verwandten davon abgebracht wurde. Ihren Ehemann Plantagenet Palliser, einen Vollblut-Politiker, dem Aussichten auf das Schatzkanzleramt nachgesagt werden, findet sie recht langweilig und versteht es, ihn konstant zu piesacken. Dass am Ende alles gut ausgeht, versteht sich bei Trollope von selbst, aber wie es dazu kommt, das muss man sich erst erlesen - nach rund 600 Seiten!
Trollope wäre allerdings nicht Trollope, wenn es in diesem Roman bei der einen Geschichte bleiben würde. Wir machen gleich zu Anfang des Buches Bekanntschaft mit der Familie Vavasor, weitläufige Verwandte der Pallisers. Alice Vavasor, eine selbstbewusste junge Frau mit politischen Ambitionen, hat sich vormals von ihrem Cousin George, der als "wilder Mann" eingeführt wird, getrennt und sich mit dem - nomen ist omen! - blassen Mr. Grey verlobt. Im Laufe des Romans macht sie diesen Schritt rückgängig, was damals als gesellschaftlich inakzeptabel galt, sieht sich jedoch nicht imstande, George, der beinahe einen Mord begeht, zu heiraten. George ist Parlamentsabgeordneter, braucht jedoch dringend Geld, um seine Wahlkampagne zu finanzieren, und schafft es, einen Großteil von Alice Vavasors persönlichem Vermögen auszugeben, ehe er merkt, dass die Ehe mit ihr wohl nicht zustande kommen wird.
Einen dritten Strang führt Trollope, anscheinend als "comic relief" ein: Eine Tante Alice Vavasors, Mrs. Greenow, ist jetzt eine reiche Witwe. Bei einer Erholunsreise an die englische Ostküste lernt sie zwei mögliche Ehemänner kennen: den reichen Bauern Cheesacre und den verarmten Militär Bellfield. Wir erfahren, wie diese Situation sich zuspitzt, bis am Ende auch Mrs. Greenow erneut "unter die Haube" kommt, ihr neuer Ehemann jedoch eher "unter die Pantoffel".
Mit 675 Seiten gehört dieser Roman zu den längeren, die Trollope veröffentlichte, aber aus Sicht des Lesers kann das nicht zu lang sein, denn die Geschichte erweist sich als in jeder Hinsicht faszinierend. Wie der Titel andeutet, geht es hier u. a. um das Thema Vergebung - dazu empfehle ich das Buch "Vergeben und Vergessen" von Lewis B. Smedes (Francke-Buchhandlung) als philosophisch-psychologisches Gegenpol -, aber auch um die Auswirkungen des damals aufkeimenden Feminismus sowie um die große Politik. Es fällt auf, dass Trollope sich hier zum ersten Mal mit Gestalten aus dem Hochadel beschäftigt und nicht nur mit dem verarmten Landadel, wie in den Romanen zuvor. Das alle Konventionen sprengende Benehmen von Lady Glencora wäre zudem damals als schockierend empfunden worden, auch wenn man heute kaum darüber stolpert.
Eine Fülle von Nebengestalten bevölkert das Buch. Wir lernen hier den recht ekelhaften Mr. Bott kennen, ebenso dessen künftige Ehefrau, die "petzende" Mrs. Marsham neben vielen weiteren Verwandten der Protagonisten aus allen Gesellschaftsschichten. Ganze Abschnitte der Erzählung spielen außerdem in der Schweiz oder in Baden-Baden, was dem Roman ein gewisses internationales Flair verleiht. Dass Mr. pallisers Ambitionen auf das Schatzkanzleramt am Ende in Erfüllung gehen, versteht sich von selbst und bereitet den nächsten Roman der "Palliser"-Serie vor, "Phineas Finn - the Irish Member".
- DidierReviewed in the United Kingdom on August 6, 2008
5.0 out of 5 stars Impressive
This is the first book of the so-called 'Palliser-' or 'political' novels by Anthony Trollope, and if the next 5 volumes are as good as this one that would be nothing short of amazing. If you've read the Barsetshire-chronicles, you'll immediately recognize the inimitable Trollope-style, with its painstakingly detailed analyses of the characters' feelings and emotions. And therefore, remote in time as the settings of these novels may be, ever so much is recognizable and relevant even in the 21st century. I found myself constantly thinking 'I would have felt so too', sympathizing with some characters and disliking others because all of them are painted so life-like you'll feel you've met them in the flesh.
In this particular novel the heroine, Alice Vavasor, is torn between two lovers: her cousin George (ambitious and attractive but with a temper) and the stoic gentleman John Grey. She in turn accepts and then rejects both and is unable to forgive herself for being a 'jilt' (hence the title).
There's nothing much sensational about the plot (is there ever with Trollope?) and the pace is slow, much slower probably than what we've become used to, but nevertheless this is a book thoroughly to be enjoyed.