Doctor Thorne: A Barsetshire Novel (Wordsworth Classics) - Softcover

Trollope, Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840227362 ISBN 13: 9781840227369

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 2016

Synopsis

With an Introduction by Joanna Trollope.

Trollope's delightful novel recounts the fortunes of Doctor Thorne, an upright and principled country doctor, and his niece Mary. She falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the heavily mortgaged Greshambury estate, but he is constrained in his choices by the need to marry well so that he can restore the family fortunes.

The vicissitudes of Mary and Frank's courtship are lovingly detailed with all the wit and satire that show Trollope at his finest. In this social comedy, full of snobbery, hypocrisy and self-seeking, we meet characters from the city and cathedral of Barchester, and are introduced to the grandiloquent de Courcy family, whose pretensions mark its members among the author's most felicitous creations, as well as the down-to-earth heiress Miss Dunstable and the deplorable Sir Roger Scatcherd.

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Review:

Doctor Thorne is engaging, witty, profoundly moving, and full of emotional strands that seem as relevant today as when it was written. I love it. --Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton Abbey

Book Description:

'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money'

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1840227362
• ISBN 13: 9781840227369
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 480