Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781787247260
Publisher:	Sovereign Publications
Publication date:	08/02/2018
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

Anthony Trollope (24 April 1815- 6 December 1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire.

Simon Dentith is a former President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and he has published widely on nineteenth-century topics. He is the editor of Trollope's Phineas Finn in Oxford World's Classics, and his books include Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2006).

Table of Contents

Doctor Thorne is the third of the six highly popular Chronicles of Barsetshire

In many ways Doctor Thorne is Trollope's ideal character - human, reticent, stern and honourable. He has the strength to stand up to the destructive prejudices and fears of mid-Victorian society but at the same time does not abandon its traditional values.

Doctor Thorne is about the problem of an unsuitable marriage. Shall young Frank Gresham, heir to a great impoverished estate, marry the penniless Mary Thorne? Shall Doctor Thorne, her uncle, disclose that she may herself become heiress to a huge fortune? In the anxieties of honest people who behave without heroics; in the gentle satire with which great persons are described; and in the pleasant humour which pervades the book, Trollope reveals the subtlety which is so characteristic of his novels.

Editorial Reviews

"Literary wizardry and hilarious digs . . . Entertaining twists, flirtations, jiltigs, broken hearts . . . Wicked!" —Val Hennessy, Daily Mail


"Doctor Thorne has the best plot - seduction, murder, families ruined by drink and debt - and, in the eponymous doctor, the most sympathetic and human of all Trollope's heroes." —Guardian


"One would be hard put to name a more enjoyable Victorian novelist than Anthony Trollope." —Washington Post


"Why did Freud bother? This is so much better, and truer." —Daily Telegraph


"There is wonderful comedy in Doctor Thorne . . . The book is a testament to Trollope’s belief in decency as a guide to living, and I think we are made all the better for it." —Julian Fellowes, Radio Times

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