Doctor Thorne
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780394605265 (0394605268)
Publisher: Modern Library
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
19th Century,
English Literature,
Victoriana
Series: The Chronicles of Barsetshire (#3)
In the chapters of his autobiography where he talks about this book (I've been dipping into it as I read the novels), Trollope expresses surprise that his publishers told him it was his bestselling novel. I'm not so surprised. If you're going to write a perfectly conventional romance plot, with a cl...
Dr. Thorne is a distant cousin to the Thornes of Ullathorne, minor characters in 'Barchester Towers', who moved to Greshamsbury years before after his bristling pride and steadfast devotion to his dissipated, and now dead, brother burned all of his bridges in Barchester proper. He has a small practi...
Anthony Trollope's third installment in the Barchester Chronicles. A book of birth, wealth, titles, and class distinctions. Trollope skewers all three while making Dr. Thorne and his bastard strong willed niece Mary, and Mrs Dunstable, the only ones to see the absurdity of these Victorian British ...
Doctor Thorne kept me company during a hurricane. I don't really understand how anyone could possibly not love Anthony Trollope. This 624 page novel went incredibly fast. Trollope is more courteous, more solicitous, gentler and kinder to his readers than any other author I know. I almost thought he ...
This is the 3rd in Anthony Trollope's Chronicles of Barchester, and my favorite (so far). Dr. Thorne lives with his niece Mary in the English village of Greshamsbury which is dominated by the wealthy Gresham family. Frank, the heir of the Gresham estate, has fallen in love with Mary Thorne, but ci...
8 years ago
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