Oxford World's Classics Doctor Thorne: The Chronicles of Barsetshire, (Paperback)

from startingover

I love Trollope. I won't argue with those people who claim that Charles Dickens was far more talented than Trollope, but I can't argee with those who claim that Trollope is dull. The world he recreates is essentially a cosy one, but I find his characters more recognisable than the larger-than-lif...

from TadAD

It's got an entirely predictable plot revolving around social class, "good blood", and true love vs. an eye for a fortune. Its characters fulfill all the stock roles: penniless orphan, snooty aristocrat, self-made man, young lovers. And it's got a happy ending that you never doubted was coming. A...

from atimco

Doctor Thorne, Anthony Trollope's third Barsetshire chronicle, moves away from the ecclesiastical confabulations of the first two books and into the realm of domestic intrigue a lá Austen. Published in 1858, this novel follows the lives of Mary Thorne, whose illegitimate birth has been hushed up ...

from DieFledermaus

The third novel in Trollope's Barsetshire series is better than The Warden, but doesn't quite reach the level of Barchester Towers. This time, the story takes place out in the country, though characters from the earlier two make cameos. Dr. Thorne, relative of the previously mentioned Ullathornes...

from lit_chick

2007, Blackstone Audiobooks, Read by Simon Vance Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire are a source of delight for me, and Dr. Thorne more than lived up to my expectations. True to form, Trollope delights with manors and manners, money and the lack of it, highborns and illegitimates, romance and s...