An eye for an eye

Metadata

Title

An eye for an eye

Author

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882

Publisher

London : Ward, Lock, and Co

Date

1881

Description

Publisher's advertisements: [16] p. at end.

In publisher's binding, paper covered boards; advertisements on back cover; pastedowns, and flyleaves.

This is another of the novels that Trollope set mainly in Ireland. In this one the hero, a cavalry lieutenant and heir to an earldom, seduces the beautiful Kate O’Hara, who lives with her mother in genteel poverty in an isolated cottage in western Ireland. When news of the hero’s actions reach his family, he is forced to promise not to marry the unsuitable girl, in spite of any arrangement that he has already made with her. Kate, however, is pregnant; but he leaves her when he inherits the earldom. The confrontation between the now anti-hero, Kate, and her mother takes place on the cliffs near their cottage. Mrs. O’Hara, wild with anger, pushes the young man over the cliff and promptly goes mad.

Format

vii, 344 p. ; 18 cm.

Language

eng

Type

Publishers' paper bindings (Binding)

Yellowbacks

Publishers' advertisements

Provenance

In ink on t.p. of Athenaeum's copy: "Recd Jan 28, 1884."

Citation

Trollope, Anthony, 1815-1882, “An eye for an eye,” Yellowbacks, accessed April 20, 2024, http://omeka.philaathenaeum.org/yellowbacks/items/show/279.