Dr. Thorne
Author: Anthony Trollope
An alternate cover edition for this ISBN can be found here., ‘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 Gr….Read More
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