Doctor Thorne

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This is the Penguin English Library Edition" of " Doctor Thorne" by Anthony Trollope. 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 & 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 & apparent poverty. Franks ambitious mother & haughty aunt are set against the match however & push him to make a good marriage to a wealthy heiress. Only Marys 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". " The Penguin English Library" contains 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War."