Doctor Thorne

Anthony Trollope

• Publisher: Open Road Media
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781504039673
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Classics
• Index: Literature

The breathtaking love story of an illegitimate girl and the young noble who would choose her above all.
Gender issues and economic hardships are dealt with deftly in Doctor Thorne, the third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire, and arguably the saga's finest love story. Set in rural England in the fictitious county of Barsetshire, this Victorian novel is one of Anthony Trollope's most optimistic and engaging works.
 
When Henry Thorne seduces local villager Mary Scatcherd, her stonemason brother, Roger, avenges the indignity by murdering Thorne in cold blood. While Roger goes off to prison, Mary follows a promising suitor to the Americas, leaving her illegitimate daughter in the hands of Dr. Thomas Thorne, brother to her murdered lover. The physician names the girl Mary, after her mother, and in an effort to protect the girl's reputation—and keep her away from her murderous uncle—he keeps her lineage a secret. Later, when young Mary falls in love with the heir of the squire of Greshamsbury, the lad is put in the precarious position of pursuing the girl despite his family's clear desire for him to marry a woman with titles and a much better financial standing.
 
Doctor Thorne is one of the most lighthearted and hopeful tales by Trollope. Addressing the flaws inherent in the social mores of his day, the author, a master of the English novel, entreats readers to consider—as his characters must—profound issues of life, love, and morality.
 
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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• CHAPTER I: The Greshams of Greshamsbury
• CHAPTER II: Long, Long Ago
• CHAPTER III: Dr Thorne
• CHAPTER IV: Lessons from Courcy Castle
• CHAPTER V: Frank Gresham’s First Speech
• CHAPTER VI: Frank Gresham’s Early Loves
• CHAPTER VII: The Doctor’s Garden
• CHAPTER VIII: Matrimonial Prospects
• CHAPTER IX: Sir Roger Scatcherd
• CHAPTER X: Sir Roger’s Will
• CHAPTER XI: The Doctor Drinks His Tea
• CHAPTER XII: When Greek Meets Greek, Then Comes the Tug of War
• CHAPTER XIII: The Two Uncles
• CHAPTER XIV: Sentence of Exile
• CHAPTER XV: Courcy
• CHAPTER XVI: Miss Dunstable
• CHAPTER XVII: The Election
• CHAPTER XVIII: The Rivals
• CHAPTER XIX: The Duke of Omnium
• CHAPTER XX: The Proposal
• CHAPTER XXI: Mr Moffat Falls into Trouble
• CHAPTER XXII: Sir Roger Is Unseated
• CHAPTER XXIII: Retrospective
• CHAPTER XXIV: Louis Scatcherd
• CHAPTER XXV: Sir Roger Dies
• CHAPTER XXVI: War
• CHAPTER XXVII: Miss Thorne Goes on a Visit
• CHAPTER XXXVIII: The Doctor Hears Something to His Advantage
• CHAPTER XXIX: The Donkey Ride
• CHAPTER XXX: Post Prandial
• CHAPTER XXXI: The Small End of the Wedge
• CHAPTER XXXII: Mr Oriel
• CHAPTER XXXIII: A Morning Visit
• CHAPTER XXXIV: A Barouche and Four Arrives at Greshamsbury
• CHAPTER XXXV: Sir Louis Goes Out to Dinner
• CHAPTER XXXVI: Will He Come Again?
• CHAPTER XXXVII: Sir Louis Leaves Greshamsbury
• CHAPTER XXXVIII: De Courcy Precepts and de Courcy Practice
• CHAPTER XXXIX: What the World Says about Blood
• CHAPTER XL: The Two Doctors Change Patients
• CHAPTER XLI: Doctor Thorne Won’t Interfere
• CHAPTER XLII: What Can You Give in Return?
• CHAPTER XLIII: The Race of Scatcherd Becomes Extinct
• CHAPTER XLIV: Saturday Evening and Sunday Morning
• CHAPTER XLV: Law Business in London
• CHAPTER XLVI: Our Pet Fox Finds a Tail
• CHAPTER XLVII: How the Bride Was Received, and Who Were Asked to the Wedding
• Copyright