Joya inédita de la Literatura Victoriana que relata la entrada en sociedad de la señorita Mackenzie, una «solterona» de mediana edad que recibe una inesperada herencia.
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The first of Trollope's six Palliser novels, Can You Forgive Her? explores the dilemma of Alice Vavasor, torn between two suitors, and the choices faced by two other independent women. The tensions within Victorian society highlighted by the plot are illuminated in the introduction and notes to this new edition.
When the Melmottes arrive in London everyone agrees their manners are wanting, their taste is execrable and their lineage and background decidedly shadowy. But their money is far from revolting, and city society quickly makes allowances for the mysterious financier and his family.
Trollope es uno de los grandes maestros de la edad de oro de la literatura inglesa, la que dio autores de la categoría de Jane Austen, Dickens o Thackeray. El custodio es la historia del reverendo Harding, un hombre al que nada le falta para merecer el calificativo de alma bendita. Es el encargado de velar por la conservacion de un asilo y los ancianos que lo habitan. Lo ultimo que se imagina es que entre sus manos esta a punto de estallar un escandalo que arramblara con la tranquilidad de todo el condado de Barsetshire. Gracias a Trollope conocemos mejor el corazon humano. Henry James
La sobrina de un honrado médico rural se enamora de un heredero cargado de hipotecas. Una novela sobre la grandeza de ser fiel a los propios principios.Esta lúcida novela, el mejor fruto del talento de Trollope, describe la conmocion que un honrado medico rural de solidos principios, y su sobrina Mary, provocan en la clase alta rural de Barchester, representada por las ostentosas familias Gresham y de Courcy. La mansion de los Gresham esta llena de problemas, y el mayor de todos es el empeño de Frank, el heredero, en casarse con Mary. Animosa, leal y sincera, Mary no posee nada de valor salvo ella misma. Pero a su alrededor, giraran las damas Gresham y de Courcy, en sus diversos grados de esnobismo, como contraste con su valia. Los altibajos del amor entre Mary y Frank son contados con la calidez y el humor inteligente propios del mejor Trollope. El doctor Thorne -su mas querido protagonista- aporta a la trama lo mejor de si mismo: integridad y entrega. Es esta una novela sobre clase y poder; sobre privilegios y riqueza versus lealtad y sentimientos sinceros, pero sobre todo, es una novela sobre la grandeza de ser fiel a los propios principios. Anthony Trollope, destacado novelista del XIX, nacio el 24 de abril de 1815 en Londres, y murio tambien en Londres en 1882. Siguiendo la senda de su madre, a...
The first of Trollope's popular Barsetshire novels, set in the fictional cathedral town of Barchester, The Warden centers on the honorable cleric Septimus Harding, one of Trollope's most memorable characters. When Harding is accused of mismanaging church funds, his predicament lays bare the complexities of the Victorian world and of nineteenth-century provincial life. And, as Louis Auchincloss observes in his Introduction, "The theme of The Warden presents the kind of social problem that always fascinated Trollope: the inevitable clash of ancient privilege with modern social awareness."
The Duke's Children is the last of Trollope's six Palliser novels and concludes the story of Plantagenet Palliser, former Prime Minister and latterly Duke of Omnium. Lady Glencora is dead and the Duke, widowed and grieving, is left with the responsibility of three difficult children. His sons are sent down from university in disgrace and the Duke is further dismayed when his daughter Lady Mary and his eldest son Silverbridge both propose to marry out of the English nobility. One by one the Duke's dearest wishes are thwarted, yet at the same time he discovers how parents can learn from their children, and is rescued from his own inflexible pride and snobbery by the strength of his private affections. As Birch remarks in her introduction, 'of all the many late developers in Trollope's fiction, Palliser is the most impressive'. The Duke's Children (1880) is resonant with the memories of the Duke of Omnium who had come to be more than a fiction to Trollope, 'so much do I love the man whose character I had endeavoured to portray'.
The second of Trollope's Palliser novels tells of the career of a hot-blooded middle-class politician whose sexual energies bring him much success with women.
