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He Knew He Was Right (Penguin Classics)
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He Knew He Was Right (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 1996

by Trollope, Anthony; Kermode, Frank [Introduction]

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  • Title He Knew He Was Right (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Trollope, Anthony; Kermode, Frank [Introduction]
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition New
  • Pages 864
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • Date 1996-04-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0140433910
  • ISBN 9780140433913 / 0140433910
  • Weight 1.29 lbs (0.59 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.8 x 5.08 x 1.71 in (19.81 x 12.90 x 4.34 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1120
  • Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Psychological fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96163845
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

The central theme of the novel is the sexual jealousy of Louis Trevelyan who unjustly accuses his wife Emily of a liaison with a friend of her father's. As his suspicion deepens into madness, Trollope gives us a profound psychological study in which Louis' obsessive delirium is comparable to the tormented figure of Othello, tragically flawed by self-deception. Against the disintegration of the Trevelyans' marriage, a lively cast of characters explore the ideas of female emancipation and how to distinguish between obedience and subjection. Although himself no supporter of women's rights, in this novel some of Trollope's most spirited characters are single women.

Published in 1869, the same year as John Stuart Mills' The Subjection of Women and while the Divorce Act was a relative novelty, He Knew He Was Right was a timely novel, drawing a fine line between the obedience of women within marriage and their total possession by men.

From the publisher

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.


Frank Kermode is among our greatest contemporary critics. He has written and edited many works, among them The Sense of Ending and Shakespeare’s Language.

About the author

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was born in London to a bankrupt barrister father and a mother who, as a well-known writer, supported the family. Trollope enjoyed considerable acclaim both as a novelist and as a senior civil servant in the Post Office. He published more than forty novels and many short stories that are regarded by some as among the greatest of nineteenth-century fiction.

Frank Kermode is among our greatest contemporary critics. He has written and edited many works, among them The Sense of Ending and Shakespeare's Language.

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