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A review by melslostinabook
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
5.0
If I had to sum up this book in one sentence, it would be this: For God’s sake, Frank must marry money!
At least we are told so over and over again throughout the entirety of this novel. Poor Frank! Is he not to be allowed to marry his one true love, a poor orphan whose parentage is the subject of much controversy throughout the village of Greshambury? Not if Frank’s mother, Mrs. Gresham, and her aristocratic family, The de Courcy’s have anything to say about it.
Doctor Thorne is the third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, and it veers away from the village of Barchester to Greshambury, and the focus shifts from church politics and intrigue to landed gentry, doctors and lawyers, with some scandal thrown in for good measure, of course. The story centers around three families in Greshambury: the Thornes, the Greshams, and the Scatcherds.
The plot proceeds predictably and Trollope, true to his writing style, uses a lot of words to make his point, meaning the book is long and wordy. But I enjoyed it very much! This one seemed to me more along the lines of a Jane Austen novel, with its focus on marriage arrangements and it’s catty members of the female sex.
I’m looking forward to the next installment in this series!
At least we are told so over and over again throughout the entirety of this novel. Poor Frank! Is he not to be allowed to marry his one true love, a poor orphan whose parentage is the subject of much controversy throughout the village of Greshambury? Not if Frank’s mother, Mrs. Gresham, and her aristocratic family, The de Courcy’s have anything to say about it.
Doctor Thorne is the third novel in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, and it veers away from the village of Barchester to Greshambury, and the focus shifts from church politics and intrigue to landed gentry, doctors and lawyers, with some scandal thrown in for good measure, of course. The story centers around three families in Greshambury: the Thornes, the Greshams, and the Scatcherds.
The plot proceeds predictably and Trollope, true to his writing style, uses a lot of words to make his point, meaning the book is long and wordy. But I enjoyed it very much! This one seemed to me more along the lines of a Jane Austen novel, with its focus on marriage arrangements and it’s catty members of the female sex.
I’m looking forward to the next installment in this series!