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Can You Forgive Her?
Capítulos (80)
- I: Mr. Vavasor and His Daughter 0:00
- II: Lady Macleod 17:37
- III: John Grey, the Worthy Man 44:57
- IV: George Vavasor, the Wild Man 1:16:12
- V: The Balcony at Basle 1:37:07
- VI: The Bridge Over the Rhine 2:02:01
- VII: Aunt Greenow 2:26:33
- VIII: Mr. Cheesacre 2:51:17
- IX: The Rivals 3:15:15
- X: Nethercoats 3:46:50
- XI: John Grey Goes to London 4:05:06
- XII: Mr. George Vavasor at Home 4:33:09
- XIII: Mr. Grimes Gets His Odd Money 4:52:14
- XIV: Alice Vavasor Becomes Troubled 5:09:37
- XV: Paramount Crescent 5:44:30
- XVI: The Roebury Club 6:09:10
- XVII: Edgehill 6:29:27
- XVIII: Alice Vavasor’s Great Relations 7:07:30
- XIX: Tribute from Oileymead 7:31:49
- XX: Which Shall It Be? 7:48:44
- XXI: Alice Is Taught to Grow Upwards, Towards the Light 8:07:53
- XXII: Dandy and Flirt 8:25:25
- XXIII: Dinner at Matching Priory 8:55:57
- XXIV: Three Politicians 9:19:49
- XXV: In Which Much of the History of the Pallisers Is Told 9:45:09
- XXVI: Lady Midlothian 10:12:59
- XXVII: The Priory Ruins 10:38:10
- XXVIII: Alice Leaves the Priory 10:57:57
- XXIX: Burgo Fitzgerald 11:22:52
- XXX: Containing a Love Letter 11:49:53
- XXXI: Among the Fells 12:08:06
- XXXII: Containing an Answer to the Love Letter 12:39:21
- XXXIII: Monkshade 13:00:44
- XXXIV: Mr. Vavasor Speaks to His Daughter 13:21:36
- XXXV: Passion Versus Prudence 13:46:33
- XXXVI: John Grey Goes a Second Time to London 14:12:04
- XXXVII: Mr. Tombe’s Advice 14:38:40
- XXXVIII: The Inn at Shap 14:56:25
- XXXIX: Mr. Cheesacre’s Hospitality 15:26:06
- XL: Mrs. Greenow’s Little Dinner in the Close 15:44:18
- XLI: A Noble Lord Dies 16:16:19
- XLII: Parliament Meets 16:36:02
- XLIII: Mrs. Marsham 16:59:16
- XLIV: The Election for the Chelsea Districts 17:35:44
- XLV: George Vavasor Takes His Seat 17:55:11
- XLVI: A Love Gift 18:16:03
- XLVII: Mr. Cheesacre’s Disappointment 18:44:08
- XLVIII: Preparations for Lady Monk’s Party 19:15:41
- XLIX: How Lady Glencora Went to Lady Monk’s Party 19:33:56
- L: How Lady Glencora Came Back from Lady Monk’s Party 19:58:54
- LI: Bold Speculations on Murder 20:27:29
- LII: What Occurred in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall 20:45:10
- LIII: The Last Will of the Old Squire 21:11:31
- LIV: Showing How Alice Was Punished 21:34:30
- LV: The Will 21:58:43
- LVI: Another Walk on the Fells 22:21:54
- LVII: Showing How the Wild Beast Got Himself Back from the Mountains 22:45:29
- LVIII: The Pallisers at Breakfast 23:09:39
- LIX: The Duke of St. Bungay in Search of a Minister 23:35:33
- LX: Alice Vavasor’s Name Gets Into the Money Market 24:00:15
- LXI: The Bills Are Made All Right 24:22:58
- LXII: Going Abroad 24:40:46
- LXIII: Mr. John Grey in Queen Anne Street 25:06:14
- LXIV: The Rocks and Valleys 25:26:37
- LXV: The First Kiss 25:59:00
- LXVI: Lady Monk’s Plan 26:20:46
- LXVII: The Last Kiss 26:42:58
- LXVIII: From London to Baden 27:13:12
- LXIX: From Baden to Lucerne 27:36:56
- LXX: At Lucerne 28:01:35
- LXXI: Showing How George Vavasor Received a Visit 28:26:43
- LXXII: Showing How George Vavasor Paid a Visit 28:52:51
- LXXIII: In Which Come Tidings of Great Moment to All Pallisers 29:13:28
- LXXIV: Showing What Happened in the Churchyard 29:37:57
- LXXV: Rouge et Noir 30:02:29
- LXXVI: The Landlord’s Bill 30:32:27
- LXXVII: The Travellers Return Home 30:52:54
- LXXVIII: Mr. Cheesacre’s Fate 31:15:08
- LXXIX: Diamonds Are Diamonds 31:47:28
- LXXX: The Story Is Finished Within the Halls of the Duke of Omnium 32:14:45
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Can You Forgive Her? is the story of Alice Vavasor and her cousins. On her father’s side are Kate and George Vavasor, brother and sister. Alice and George had been passionately in love, but flaws in George’s character led her to break an engagement with him. As time passes, she falls in love with John Grey, and agrees to be his wife—but his placid character leaves her longing for something of the excitement of her previous lover. This engagement, too, is broken, in part through Kate’s efforts to bring Alice and George back together. But on Alice’s mother’s side, she is also cousin to Lady Glencora Palliser, recently married to Plantagenet Palliser, nephew and heir to the Duke of Omnium, and a rising man in Parliament. As Lady Glencora learns to look to Alice for support in the rocky early days of marriage, Alice herself is thrown into deeper doubt about the wisdom of her own choices.
Can You Forgive Her? is the first in the series of Anthony Trollope’s political novels, known collectively as the Palliser novels. They serve in many ways to extend his earlier Chronicles of Barsetshire: the Palliser family is already introduced there, especially in Doctor Thorne and The Small House at Allington. In fact, Trollope completed this, the first of his “parliamentary” novels, in 1864, before embarking on The Last Chronicle of Barset in 1866.
While the Barchester books have the intrigues of provincial clergy and cathedral as their focal point, the Palliser series moves on to the high politics of parliament and Westminster. And much as the interest in clerical life ebbs and flows in the Barchester series, so too politics comes into prominence and recedes through the Palliser novels.
In Can You Forgive Her?, political aspiration is present throughout, though personal politics comes in for closer scrutiny than the parliamentary variety. The exploration of whether others can forgive Alice parallels the need for almost every other character in the novel to be forgiven for something by someone. Trollope also examines the question of whether Alice can forgive herself, or receive the forgiveness of others—and he pointedly invites the “gentle reader” to reflect on their own preparedness to forgive.