Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope

Overview

Frank Gresham is bankrupt and in love. Unfortunately, the woman he loves, Mary Thorne, is illegitimate and broke. Frank's overbearing mother is against the match, insisting that Frank marry a wealthy heiress. Meanwhile, Doctor Thorne, Mary's uncle, knows that Mary is about to inherit a fortune, but he wants the young lovers to make their decision unburdened by the knowledge. Will Frank succumb to family pressure, or go with his heart?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780099595892
Publisher:	Random House UK
Publication date:	04/01/2017
Series:	Vintage Classics
Pages:	576
Sales rank:	841,720
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 1.50(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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