La Vendee (1850) is unusual in being Trollope's only historical novel, written immediately before the first of the Barchester series. Set in rural western France in 1793, the plot centres on the civil war between roylists and rebel republicans. Trollope's support for the rebels emerges not only through his treatment of military conflict but also in a romantic subplot, where the lovers are as doomed as the rebellion itself. His depiction of the turncoat Denot is a piercing psychological study of a near-pathological character, unusual both for Trollope and for his time. Beneath the surface of the narrative various subversive themse can be detected, and the introduction sheds light on how the book constituted Trollope's own rebellion against his family. This edition, with its extensive notes and gazetteer, is the first to examine the novel both sympathetically and critically.
- ISBN10 0140438025
- ISBN13 9780140438024
- Publish Date 25 March 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 October 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 992
- Language English