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A man who would rather be ruined than be wrong.
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Louis Trevelyan and his young wife Emily marry for love, and then quarrel over nothing: the visits of an elderly family friend, and a husband’s command that a wife will not obey. Neither will bend. What begins as a trivial dispute hardens, point by point, into a ruinous battle of wills, until jealousy curdles into obsession and Trevelyan destroys his marriage, his home, and himself rather than admit that he might be wrong.
First published in 1869, He Knew He Was Right is the darkest and most modern of Anthony Trollope’s great novels, an unsparing anatomy of pride, and of the small cruelties by which two people who love each other come undone. Around the central tragedy Trollope weaves a full Victorian world of courtships and comedy, from Exeter to Florence.
Presented complete in two volumes, freshly typeset in EB Garamond and Marcellus behind original mixed media illustrations by JVB Atelier Designs.
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- Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)
- Northlume Classic Library
- Paperback, 6 × 9, complete in two volumes