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Can You Forgive Her?

By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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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 listeners 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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Critic reviews

“The tale is, in many respects, one of his best.”

(Spectator, 1865)

“Mr. Trollope...has never written a story in which there is better workmanship, or more careful study of character than Can You Forgive Her?”

(Athenaeum, 1865)

“Gripping…The satire on the mores and double dealings of society still seems contemporary…Trollope’s account of a society in which money, breeding and influence, rather than skill or integrity, are the primary routes into power is unpleasantly familiar.”

(Guardian (London))

“Like a fine, well-aged wine, Vance’s British-laced reading is full-bodied, robust, and smooth…Vance changes dialects to indicate class levels and has an especially good time with a banker who speaks in a blustery, pompous voice. Trollope fans will love Vance’s interpretation of this classic novel.”

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Great thank you much enjoyed the book and hope to hear more bt Simon vance

Good read

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I don’t know why this book is being discontinued. Some of us love these Victorian novels, even if many don’t. Simon Vance is a brilliant reader and truly understands this material.

A classic Victorian novel

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A fascinating and engaging story beautifully read by Simon Vance. Soap opera in many ways but with huge class and in depth human insight.

Great

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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.

Very enjoyable

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Great characters and well read. Somewhat laborious descriptions and self flagellation by Alice
But a satisfactory happy ending.

Victorian susceptibility

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