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A review by rossettivale
Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope
5.0
I read this a year ago, and yesterday I saw the ITV series based on the book. Although non perfect, the series was clearly faithful to the novel and refreshed my memory on this novel. Now, to be perfectly clear, I do believe that Trollope is, after Charles Dickens and Dumas, my favourite writer.
The reason for my love is simple: He write some damn good novel. They follow a certain pattern (petty scandals, love stories, protagonists good but not perfect and villains that are simply a bit selfish, but not what we would consider cruel). This patterns, although repetitive, work if you read from one to three novels by the novelist a year. They are never boring, the writing is so engaging and lovable, funny but composed and "educated" that by the end of the novel you just feel good. Doctor Thorne is no different from the other I read ( I am reading now Framley Parsonage, the fourth novel in his Barsetshire series). The plot involve a love story and the schemes of the kid's family to avoid the marriage with a seemingly poor girl. Nothing particularly new. But Trollope does not conquest the reader with intricated plots and insane cliffhanger. He does that with some characters (in this case, the likeable and mild Doctor Thorne and the rich Miss Dunstable) and with his wit, which he uses to criticize the victorian times, but without being rude, offensive or radical. He wanted to put a smile on the face of the reader.
150 years later, his novel can do that. Not bad, considering that most of what was written in those time his nowadays unreadable.
Well done Trollope, well done.
The reason for my love is simple: He write some damn good novel. They follow a certain pattern (petty scandals, love stories, protagonists good but not perfect and villains that are simply a bit selfish, but not what we would consider cruel). This patterns, although repetitive, work if you read from one to three novels by the novelist a year. They are never boring, the writing is so engaging and lovable, funny but composed and "educated" that by the end of the novel you just feel good. Doctor Thorne is no different from the other I read ( I am reading now Framley Parsonage, the fourth novel in his Barsetshire series). The plot involve a love story and the schemes of the kid's family to avoid the marriage with a seemingly poor girl. Nothing particularly new. But Trollope does not conquest the reader with intricated plots and insane cliffhanger. He does that with some characters (in this case, the likeable and mild Doctor Thorne and the rich Miss Dunstable) and with his wit, which he uses to criticize the victorian times, but without being rude, offensive or radical. He wanted to put a smile on the face of the reader.
150 years later, his novel can do that. Not bad, considering that most of what was written in those time his nowadays unreadable.
Well done Trollope, well done.