Doctor Thorne: The Chronicles of Barsetshire - Brossura

Trollope, Anthony

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0199662789 ISBN 13: 9780199662784

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2014

Riassunto

'Frank has but one duty before him. He must marry money.'

The squire of Greshamsbury has fallen on hard times, and it is incumbent on his son Frank to make a good marriage. But Frank loves the doctor's niece, Mary Thorne, a girl with no money and mysterious parentage. He faces a terrible dilemma: should he save the estate, or marry the girl he loves? Mary, too, has to battle her feelings, knowing that marrying Frank would ruin his family and fly in the face of his mother's opposition. Her pride is matched by that of her uncle, Dr Thorne, who has to decide whether to reveal a secret that would resolve Frank's difficulty, or to uphold the innate merits of his own family heritage.

The character of Dr Thorne reflects Trollope's own contradictory feelings about the value of tradition and the need for change. His subtle portrayal, and the comic skill and gentle satire with which the story is developed, are among the many pleasures of this delightful novel.

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Recensione:

Powerfully lucid in its account of the subservience of the "exchange of young bodies" in this novel to the cause of the preservation of the Greshambury estate. (Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement)

L'autore:

Simon Dentith is a former President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and he has published widely on nineteenth-century topics. He is the editor of Trollope's Phineas Finn in Oxford World's Classics, and his books include Epic and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2006).

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0199662789
• ISBN 13: 9780199662784
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Redattore: Dentith Simon