Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

In this, the third Barchester novel there are very few clerics - Mrs Proudie, for example, having what amounts to a cameo appearance - and this is chiefly because the author found himself more concerned with the county families. The happy result is the widening of the series' scope in unexpected directions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9786057566515
Publisher:	E-Kitap Projesi & Cheapest Books
Publication date:	01/01/1900
Pages:	622
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.38(d)

About the Author

Anthony Trollope became one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of Trollope's best-loved works, known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire; he also wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day.

Trollope has always been a popular novelist. Noted fans have included Sir Alec Guinness (who never travelled without a Trollope novel), former British Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Sir John Major, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, American novelists Sue Grafton and Dominick Dunne and soap opera writer Harding Lemay. Trollope's literary reputation dipped somewhat during the last years of his life, but he regained the esteem of critics by the mid-twentieth century.

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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