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He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope published his longest novel in 1869, a work born from the restless energy that followed his resignation from the Post Office. Titled He…

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Anthony Trollope published his longest novel in 1869, a work born from the restless energy that followed his resignation from the Post Office. Titled He Knew He Was Right, the book stands as a stark departure from the pastoral charm of his Barsetshire chronicles. It offers instead a chilling anatomy of domestic collapse, exploring how pride and suspicion can erode the foundations of marriage. The narrative centers on Louis Trevelyan, a man whose intellect becomes his undoing as he fixates on imagined betrayals. This obsession transforms a seemingly stable union into a theatre of psychological warfare. Trollope does not offer easy villains nor simple resolutions. He presents a tragedy born of stubbornness, where both partners refuse to yield, each convinced of their own moral superiority. The novel weaves this central crisis with lighter subplots involving love, money, and social ambition in Exeter and London. These contrasting relationships highlight the fragility of trust and the weight of Victorian legal constraints on women. Reading alongside the recording allows one to trace the slow, inevitable descent of a mind trapped by its own certainty.

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He Knew He Was Right was first published in 1869. Works first published before 1931 are in the public domain in the United States, so the text is free to read, share and adapt. The edition shown here comes from Project Gutenberg, which publishes only books that are in the US public domain.

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Chapters

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

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