Doctor Thorne

Name: Doctor Thorne
Author: Anthony Trollope
ISBN: 9781910660553

Author: Anthony Trollope
Series: The Barchester Chronicles
Language: English
Length: 520 pages
ISBN: 9781910660553
Published: 15 January 2015
Imprint: Sovereign

Barchester
Anthony Trollope
Victorian
social
political
gender
sensual
awakening
love
relationship

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Description

"Doctor Thorne," the third book in Anthony Trollope's beloved Chronicles of Barsetshire, delves into themes of class, inheritance, and romance. The story centers on the upstanding but impoverished Doctor Thorne and his niece, Mary, who is secretly in love with Frank Gresham, heir to a dwindling estate. The plot thickens when it is revealed that Mary might inherit a large fortune, setting off a cascade of societal and familial expectations about whom Frank should marry for financial salvation. This novel brilliantly tackles the constraints of social standings and the pursuit of personal happiness.

Author

Anthony Trollope (1815–1882) spent his days as a Post Office surveyor and his early hours at the novel — a clerk's discipline that produced an English county of clergy and a later London of money. Barchester Towers is the church as weather: preferment, gossip, a bishop's wife. The Way We Live Now is the same eye on speculation and the social lie. He wrote without apology for the method. Church, vote, and marriage sit in the same air.

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