Doctor Thorne
Doctor Thorne is the third audiobook in Anthony Trollope’s series known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire. Long regarded as one of Trollope’s greatest works, it is a complex story of love, greed and illegitimacy. Set in fictional Barsetshire, it concerns the romantic challenges facing Doctor Thorne’s penniless niece, Mary, and Frank Gresham, the only son of the impoverished squire of Greshambury. Mary falls in love with Frank but he is constrained by the need to marry well to restore the family fortunes and Greshambury estate. Despite the promptings of his family to consider a Miss Dunstable, heiress to a fortune, Frank’s affections persist, and the humane Doctor Thorne, as Mary’s protector, must confront the prejudices of the mid-Victorian society.
Timothy West’s narration enhances all the wit and satire that one expects from Trollope. Full of snobbery and hypocrisy, it is a social comedy full of some of Trollope’s most brilliant characters.
Doctor Thorne
By: Anthony Trollope
Narrated by: Timothy West
Series: Audible Exclusive – Chronicles of Barsetshire, read by Timothy West, Book 3, Chronicles of Barsetshire, Book 3
Length: 20 hrs and 51 mins
Release date: 01-16-08
Language: English
Format and Bitrate: M4B@125 kbps
Size: 1.11 GB