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Doctor Thorne

by Anthony Trollope

First published
1858
Reading level
Plain English
Price
Free

About the book

"Doctor Thorne" by Anthony Trollope is a novel published in 1858. It tells the story of Mary Thorne, a young woman of mysterious parentage raised by her uncle, a country doctor. When she falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the local estate, their union seems impossible—his family needs him to marry wealth, and Mary is penniless. Meanwhile, secret connections between the families and a complex web of debts threaten to determine everyone's fate in unexpected ways.

  • England
  • Inheritance and succession
  • Physicians
  • Love stories
  • Domestic fiction
  • Country life

Updated September 2026. Public domain in the USA. Text and summary from Project Gutenberg eBook #3166. Doctor Thorne on Wikipedia.

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