num_pages: 557
description: An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.
  'You must give up this mad idea, Frank ... there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money'
Doctor Thorne, considered by Trollope to be the best of his works, is a telling examination of the relationship between money and morality. It recounts the story of the son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham, who is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's ambitious mother and haughty aunt are set against the match, however, and push him to make a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Mary's loving uncle, Dr Thorne, knows of the fortune she is about to inherit - but believes she should be accepted on her own terms. The third book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
language: English
title: Doctor Thorne
titlecomplete: Doctor Thorne (Chronicles of Barsetshire #3)
genres: Literature, British Literature, Audiobook, Classics, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 7382
series: Chronicles of Barsetshire
publisher: Penguin Books