Can You Forgive Her? Volume 2

Name: Can You Forgive Her? Volume 2
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781802564242

Author: Anthony Trollope

Narrator: Raphael Croft

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Interactive Media

Published: 03/26/2025

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

In Volume 2, Alice Vavasor’s internal conflict intensifies as her engagement to John Grey faces strain from her lingering feelings for her cousin George. Meanwhile, Lady Glencora’s struggles in her marriage to Plantagenet Palliser reveal the constraints of societal expectations, even as her bond with Burgo Fitzgerald threatens scandal. Trollope delves deeper into themes of love, duty, and forgiveness, exploring the tension between personal desires and moral obligations. With rich character development and sharp social critique, this volume builds suspense, examining whether choices driven by passion or duty can lead to lasting happiness.

About Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope (1815 - 1882) was one of the most successful English novelists during the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, but he also wrote novels on political, social, and gender issues as well as other topical matters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Buck on April 13, 2009

George Costanza excepted, I know less about women than anyone in the world, but I’d imagine that even liberated, post-feminist women could relate to the three feisty chicks at the centre of Can You Forgive Her? Pushed willy-nilly onto the marriage market, these wealthy Victorian ladies are faced wit......more

Goodreads review by Mary Ronan on July 07, 2016

All Trollope aficionados are periodically asked The Big Question: Which of Trollope's books should a newcomer read first? With 47 novels to choose from it's difficult to answer that question. I think you have to have read all of Trollope and be re-reading him before you truly appreciate his books. B......more

Goodreads review by Katie on August 30, 2018

This was magnificent. I love Anthony Trollope's writing style, his explorations of marriage, love and responsibilities. Few people can make me love and hate characters like Trollope can, and this is another resounding success. What an author.......more

Goodreads review by Greg on September 08, 2012

Can you Forgive Her? is the story of a young woman who is engaged to be married to a very respectable gentleman. She has some doubts and starts to wonder if she should have been with the less than respectable paramour of her younger days. Along with a few other intermingling story lines, 800 pages l......more