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Part Two Of Two Parts

DR. THORNE, third in the Barsetshire Chronicles, is the tale of Frank Gresham and Mary Thorne, a couple intent on marriage despite Mary's poverty. Only the doctor knows that Mary is to inherit a large legacy, one that will make her acceptable to the sniffish middle class of which Frank is a card-carrying member.

Frank and Mary are two of the author's most attractive characters and, in a story that satisfies both their personal desires and the materialistic aspirations of society, Trollope has created one of his happiest novels.

The Barsetshire Chronicles include THE WARDEN, BARCHESTER TOWERS, DR. THORNE, FRAMLEY PARSONAGE, THE SMALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON and THE LAST CHRONICLE OF BARSET.

ISBN-13: 9780199662784

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Publication Date: 12-01-2014

Pages: 544

Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.00(d)

Series: Oxford World's Classics

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).

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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.