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Doctor Thorne

Name: Doctor Thorne
Author: Anthony Trollope

Doctor Thorne is the third novel in Anthony Trollope's series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. The idea of the plot was suggested to Trollope by his brother Thomas.It is mainly concerned with the romantic problems of Mary Thorne, niece of Doctor Thomas Thorne , and Frank Gresham, the only son of the local squire, although Trollope as the omniscient narrator assures the reader at the beginning that the hero is really the doctor.

“In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Thorne

Source: Doctor Thorne (1858), Ch. 25

“Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Thorne

First lines
Doctor Thorne (1858)

“One of her instructors in fashion had given her to understand that curls were not the thing. "They'll always pass muster," Miss Dunstable had replied, "when they are done up with bank notes."”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Thorne

Source: Doctor Thorne (1858), Ch. 16

“There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony.”

Anthony Trollope book Doctor Thorne

Source: Doctor Thorne (1858), Ch. 18