Doctor Thorne
Author: Anthony Trollope
You must give up this mad idea, Frank … there is but one course left open to you. You MUST marry money’,Doctor Thorne, considered by Trollope to be the best of his works, is a telling examination of the relationship between money and morality. It recounts the story of the son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham, who is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne de….Read More
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