He Knew He Was Right

He Knew He Was Right is one of Anthony Trollope’s darkest and most powerful novels, published in 1869. It follows Louis Trevelyan, a wealthy young husband whose small, unreasonable jealousy of his wife’s friendship with an older man hardens, against all sense and all evidence, into a fixed and ruinous conviction that she has been unfaithful. Neither her innocence nor the pleading of everyone around them can shake his obsession, and the couple are driven apart into misery and something close to madness. Around this central tragedy Trollope sets several lighter courtships, but the study of a proud man destroying himself and those he loves gives the book its lasting force. This free PDF and EPUB offers the complete novel.