Can You Forgive Her?

Resumen del libro

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. Increasingly confused about her own feelings and unable to forgive herself for such vacillation, her situation is contrasted with that of her friend Lady Glencora - forced to marry the rising politician Plantagenet Palliser in order to prevent the worthless Burgo Fitzgerald from wasting her vast fortune. In asking his readers 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.

Biografía del autor

Oscurecido por otros escritores de la época victoriana como Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins o las hermanas Brontë, Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) fue sumamente popular y apreciado en su época y aguanta en pie de igualdad la comparación con cualquiera de ellos. En sus novelas, como en las de Jane Austen, se puede apreciar un penetrante conocimiento de su época y de las pasiones y resortes que mueven la naturaleza humana.