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.
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Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was an English novelist of the Victorian era, celebrated for the Barsetshire and Palliser series, whose warm, realistic novels of society and character remain widely loved.
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He Knew He Was Right (1869) is a public domain work.
| # | Chapter | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Showing How Wrath Began | 19:51 | |
| 2 | Colonel Osbourne | 16:46 | |
| 3 | Lady Milborough's Dinner Party | 19:25 | |
| 4 | Hugh Stanbury | 18:28 | |
| 5 | Showing How the Quarrel Progressed | 16:25 | |
| 6 | Showing How Reconciliation Was Made | 24:56 | |
| 7 | Miss Jemima Stanbury, of Exeter | 24:12 | |
| 8 | 'I know it will do' | 18:17 | |
| 9 | Showing How the Quarrel Progressed Again | 16:52 | |
| 10 | Hard Words | 12:23 | |
| 11 | Lady Milborough as Ambassador | 25:46 | |
| 12 | Miss Stanbury's Generosity | 20:07 | |
| 13 | The Honourable Mr Glascock | 28:38 | |
| 14 | The Clock House at Nuncombe Putney | 19:08 | |
| 15 | What They Said About It in the Close | 11:19 | |
| 16 | Dartmoor | 17:37 | |
| 17 | A Gentleman Comes to Nuncombe Putney | 17:23 | |
| 18 | The Stanbury Correspondence | 21:00 | |
| 19 | Bozzle, the Ex-Policeman | 21:00 | |
| 20 | Showing How Colonel Osbourne Went to Cockchaffington | 16:47 | |
| 21 | Showing How Colonel Osbourne Went to Nuncombe Putney | 17:01 | |
| 22 | Showing How Miss Stanbury Behaved to Her Two Nieces | 22:27 | |
| 23 | Colonel Osbourne and Mr Bozzle Return to London | 17:43 | |
| 24 | Niddon Park | 16:51 | |
| 25 | Hugh Stanbury Smokes His Pipe | 20:21 | |
| 26 | A Third Party is So Objectionable | 17:17 | |
| 27 | Mr Trevelyan's Letter to His Wife | 16:55 | |
| 28 | Great Tribulation | 16:53 | |
| 29 | Mr and Mrs Outhouse | 15:44 | |
| 30 | Dorothy Makes Up Her Mind | 22:30 | |
| 31 | Mr Brooke Burgess | 21:35 | |
| 32 | The 'Full Moon' at St Diddulph's | 15:43 | |
| 33 | Hugh Stanbury Smokes Another Pipe | 15:10 | |
| 34 | Priscilla's Wisdom | 11:03 | |
| 35 | Mr Gibson's Good Fortune | 27:05 | |
| 36 | Miss Stanbury's Wrath | 14:21 | |
| 37 | Mont Cenis | 21:49 | |
| 38 | Verdict of the Jury--'Mad, my Lord" | 11:08 | |
| 39 | Miss Nora Rowley is Maltreated | 12:41 | |
| 40 | 'C.G.' | 9:49 | |
| 41 | Showing What Took Place at St Diddulph's | 21:36 | |
| 42 | Miss Stanbury and Mr Gibson Become Two | 17:39 | |
| 43 | Laburnum Cottage | 15:37 | |
| 44 | Brooke Burgess Takes Leave of Exeter | 21:19 | |
| 45 | Trevelyan at Venice | 18:05 | |
| 46 | The American Minister | 16:07 | |
| 47 | About Fishing, and Navigation, and Head-Dresses | 25:22 | |
| 48 | Mr Gibson is Punished | 18:34 | |
| 49 | Mr Brooke Burgess After Supper | 13:09 | |
| 50 | Camilla Triumphant | 16:55 | |
| 51 | Showing What Happened During Miss Stanbury's Illness | 28:31 | |
| 52 | Mr Outhouse Complains That It's Hard | 10:00 | |
| 53 | Hugh Stanbury Is Shown to Be No Conjuror | 16:20 | |
| 54 | Mr Gibson's Threat | 17:37 | |
| 55 | The Republican Browning | 22:12 | |
| 56 | Withered Grass | 19:14 | |
| 57 | Dorothy's Fate | 22:11 | |
| 58 | Dorothy at Home | 13:56 | |
| 59 | Mr Bozzle at Home | 12:08 | |
| 60 | Another Struggle | 27:55 | |
| 61 | Parker's Hotel, Mowbray Street | 15:50 | |
| 62 | Lady Rowley Makes an Attempt | 21:48 | |
| 63 | Sir Marmaduke at Home | 22:14 | |
| 64 | Sir Marmaduke at His Club | 11:52 | |
| 65 | Mysterious Agencies | 22:21 | |
| 66 | Of a Quarter of Lamb | 10:30 | |
| 67 | River's Cottage | 22:23 | |
| 68 | Major Magruder's Committee | 11:42 | |
| 69 | Sir Marmaduke at Willesden | 11:51 | |
| 70 | Showing What Nora Rowley Thought about Carriages | 16:48 | |
| 71 | Showing What Hugh Stanbury Thought about the Duty of Men | 16:15 | |
| 72 | The Delivery of the Lamb | 17:56 | |
| 73 | Dorothy Returns to Exeter | 19:24 | |
| 74 | The Lioness Aroused | 19:26 | |
| 75 | The Rowleys Go Over the Alps | 20:05 | |
| 76 | 'We shall be so poor' | 17:07 | |
| 77 | The Future Lady Peterborough | 20:50 | |
| 78 | Casalunga | 23:42 | |
| 79 | 'I can sleep on the boards' | 12:10 | |
| 80 | Will They Despise Him? | 20:06 | |
| 81 | Mr Glascock Is Master | 22:28 | |
| 82 | Mrs French's Carving Knife | 16:50 | |
| 83 | Bella Victrix | 16:15 | |
| 84 | Self-sacrifice | 12:43 | |
| 85 | The Baths of Lucca | 20:01 | |
| 86 | Mr Glascock as Nurse | 24:44 | |
| 87 | Mr Glascock's Marriage Completed | 22:34 | |
| 88 | Cropper and Burgess | 23:13 | |
| 89 | 'I wouldn't do it, if I was you' | 10:48 | |
| 90 | Lady Rowley Conquered | 17:18 | |
| 91 | Four O'Clock in the Morning | 20:09 | |
| 92 | Trevelyan Discourses on Life | 19:43 | |
| 93 | 'Say that you forgive me' | 23:34 | |
| 94 | A Real Christian | 17:41 | |
| 95 | Trevelyan Back in England | 16:40 | |
| 96 | Monkhams | 17:25 | |
| 97 | Mrs Brooke Burgess | 16:35 | |
| 98 | Acquitted | 18:43 | |
| 99 | Conclusion | 5:51 |
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