Can You Forgive Her? - Trollope Anthony

Can You Forgive Her? is the first of the series of novels which contain the most sustained exercise of Trollope s imagination , the six Palliser novels. (The others are Phineas Finn , The Eustace Diamonds , Phineas Redux , The Prime Minister and The Duke s Children .) Of them Trollope wrote: By no amount of description . . . could I succeed in making any reader understand how much these characters and their belongings have been to me in my latter life . Lofty critics might pounce on that and their belongings , but it reflects Trollope s remarkable gift, recognized by his contemporaries, for what Henry James called the complete appreciation of the usual . In this Barsetshire novels, to the wider world and larger possibilities of public life. In the story of Alice Vavasor and her vacillations between two suitors he reveals a depth of insight into human conduct which reputation as the efficient manufacturer of entertaining novels of country life.