by Anthony Trollope · POINTS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782757842775
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«Le Docteur Thorne» is Anthony Trollope's Victorian novel published by Points in paperback (800 pages, in French).
Mary Thorne, a young woman without a dowry and of illegitimate birth, cannot marry Frank Gresham, heir to a ruined family. The clan's women scheme an advantageous marriage to save the mortgaged property, while Mary's uncle, Doctor Thorne, keeps the secret of her lineage and of a fortune that could change her fate. Love, money and social conventions intersect in this critique of Victorian England.
It is the third installment of Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire. The English original, Doctor Thorne, was published in 1858; this French edition, translated by Alain Jumeau, dates from 2014.
For readers of Victorian novels and English classics of social critique, as well as for those following the Chronicles of Barsetshire.
Anthony Trollope was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among the best-known of his 47 novels are two series of six novels each collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire and the Palliser novels, as well as The Way We Live Now. His novels address political, social, and gender issues and other topical matters. He also wrote an autobiography, a book on William Makepeace Thackeray, a book on Lord Palmerston, five travel books, and 42 short stories.
