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Widely regarded as one of Trollope's most successful later novels,He Knew He Was Right is a study of marriage and of sexual relationships cast against a background of agitation for women's rights.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Anthony Trollope
- First published
- 1869
- Pages
- 832
- Publisher
- Strahan, Strahan & co., O.U.P.
- Editions
- 35
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781412137751
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“WHEN Louis Trevelyan was twenty-four years old, he had all the world before him where to choose; and, among other things, he chose to go to the Mandarin Islands, and there fell in love with Emily Rowley, the daughter of Sir Marmaduke, the governor.”
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