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This was the second book I’ve read this year in my Trollope project. Like Barchester Towers and The Warden in the series, Dr. Thorne was another well-plotted romance with interesting characters and Trollope’s enjoyable humor.In this book, Doctor Thorne has raised his niece Mary--the illegitimate offspring of Thorne’s deceased ne’r-do-well brother. Mary has grown up to be independent, intelligent, and kind, the center of life in the community. And Frank Gresham, the sole male heir of the storied Gresham estate, has naturally fallen in love with her. The problem, of course, is that Mary has neither a fortune nor a good birth. Frank is expected to marry wealth in order to save his family’s property and social status, and so the family determines to throw just about everything in the young couple’s way.
Like the other Trollope novels I’ve read recently, this one was a pure pleasure. I can’t say that I liked it as well as Barchester Towers. Doctor Thorne is a little more predictable and lacks some of the moral intrigue of that more complex story. What is is, though, is a very good, if straightforward, read. I can see how it was turned into a successful show and will eagerly look forward to the next of the Barsetshire Series.
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Doctor Thorne edition by Anthony Trollope Reference eBooks Reviews
I read this book during a snowstorm, which was perfect. The plot is, of course, quite predictable, but I enjoyed the archness of the style, in which Trollope draws the reader into his confidence. In its way, it is ahead of its time in so openly acknowledging that the book is a work of fiction being created almost as we read it. I enjoyed the Dickensian names - the crooked electoral agents Messrs Nearthewinde and Closerstil, and the easily corrupted voter Mr Reddypalm. It has been a few decades since I last read any Trollope, and I may not leave it so long before I read another.
I am enjoying the Barchester series as I read them in the order they were written. They provide a great picture of nineteenth century life with its social strata and the many obsessions of the privileged classes. The writing is hilarious, the issues ridiculous, the names suitably fitting the character traits. I do agree that Dr. Thorne is very similar in its storyline to "Wives and Daughters". Miss Dunstable is a wonderful character, giving Frank the advice he needed to stick to his guns. I just love the mindset shifting of Lady Arabella and the De Courcys at the end when Mary fulfills all their desires and ambitions for Frank marrying money. All objections are forgotten when the dollars are abundant. I see why Trollope titles the novel as he did. Dr. Thorne's character seems minor to the two lovers but he knows the secret inner affairs of the two families of Greshams and Scatcherds and perhaps is able to offer advice and wise guidance to achieve the best outcome for his niece without being manipulative. He holds the trump card and he plays it well.
Volume 3 in Trollope's Barchester series moves away from the intricacies of church politics and focuses on the English caste system in the mid 19th century.
The novel is called after a man whom Trollope declares as his hero a poor country doctor with professional competence and an admirable honest stubbornness, a bachelor who lives with a lovely niece, whom he treats like a daughter. Doc Thorne is a proud man, proud to be a poor man from a high family.
The niece might be considered the real heroine. She is an illegitimate child of the Doc's late brother with a woman who emigrated with another man, leaving the girl behind. The girl's social status is that of a pariah, which begins to be relevant when men start seeing her as a woman.
She is a proud and smart person, with a mind at war with itself. She fully accepts the social ranking system that condemns her to be an underdog. She knows that she is a superior person in all other respects.
Trollope is overdoing his communication with the reader a little here. He insists on telling us that the real hero of the novel is young Frank Gresham, the local squire's only son. Frank is just growing up in the world and needs to find his way in questions of rank and preferences. He finds out that all is not well with the estate and that he better finds a way to marry money if he wants to keep up the life style that he has grown up expecting. Or are emotions more important? One has social duties as well!
The ground is thus prepared for a plot with psychological and social depth, all wrapped in satirical fun poked at pretensions and stupidity. Maybe Trollope's most Austenian novel, at least among those that I know so far.
Dr. Thorne is a country doctor whose niece Mary lives with him in Greshamsbury, a village near the ancestral home of the Gresham family. The family is teetering on the edge of complete bankruptcy, and in order to regain the house's former glory, young Frank Gresham must "marry money" even though he is in love with Mary Thorne. He gets thrown together with several "suitable" young ladies, but he is determined to marry Mary, who doesn't give him much encouragement. Meanwhile Sir Roger Scatcherd is dying and wants to change his will, leaving all his money to the eldest child of his late sister, also named Mary, if his son, Louis, dies before he is 25. Dr. Thorne is the only one aware that his niece Mary is that eldest child, and therefore stands to gain a huge inheritance if her cousin doesn't make it. You can probably guess the rest.
My big beef with this story is not how obvious the plot is, but in how overwritten it was. It was full of descriptions and side stories that didn't help the plot. And, as in many Trollope books, the whole "Frank must marry money," theme was monotonous, several of the characters had nothing more important to say but said it over and over again. I was also irritated that Mary "knew" she could never marry Frank because he had to marry a rich lady, which she was not. At times it seemed like Frank was the only rational one in this debate. In other words, it's a good thing this book wasn't called "Mary Thorne," because she is not really the heroine. Nobody is. This is definitely not Trollope at his best.
This was the second book I’ve read this year in my Trollope project. Like Barchester Towers and The Warden in the series, Dr. Thorne was another well-plotted romance with interesting characters and Trollope’s enjoyable humor.
In this book, Doctor Thorne has raised his niece Mary--the illegitimate offspring of Thorne’s deceased ne’r-do-well brother. Mary has grown up to be independent, intelligent, and kind, the center of life in the community. And Frank Gresham, the sole male heir of the storied Gresham estate, has naturally fallen in love with her. The problem, of course, is that Mary has neither a fortune nor a good birth. Frank is expected to marry wealth in order to save his family’s property and social status, and so the family determines to throw just about everything in the young couple’s way.
Like the other Trollope novels I’ve read recently, this one was a pure pleasure. I can’t say that I liked it as well as Barchester Towers. Doctor Thorne is a little more predictable and lacks some of the moral intrigue of that more complex story. What is is, though, is a very good, if straightforward, read. I can see how it was turned into a successful show and will eagerly look forward to the next of the Barsetshire Series.
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