Dr Thorne
By: Anthony Trollope
Series: Penguin English library; Penguin English library
Publisher: Penguin; Penguin Classic
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9780141199474; 9780141974507
Subjects: Barsetshire (England : Imaginary place); Fiction; Social conditions
Other titles: Doctor Thorne
Description: "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, Doctor Thorne, knows of the fortune she is about to inherit - but believes she should be accepted on her own terms."--Back cover.