Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope audiobook. Genre: romance Doctor Thorne is the third of Trollope's Barsetshire novels, and unlike some of the others, has little to do with the politics and personalities of the Church of England, or politics on the national level (though there is lots of politicking in the mythical county of Barsetshire itself). The plot revolves around the illegitimate Mary Thorne, who has been lovingly raised by her uncle, a country doctor, and who, as she comes of age, finds herself wondering whether she is a lady (in the county sense of the term). Frank Gresham, son of the squire of Greshamsbury, is in love with her (much against the wishes of his noble de Courcy relatives at the Castle), but she dismisses his affection at first as mere puppy love, thereby setting the scene for a series of entanglements, social, romantic, and of course, financial and propertied (never far from the action in Trollope's works). Their resolution, of course, makes up the meat of the novel. One critic has remarked that in Doctor Thorne Trollope succeeds in one of the most difficult tasks an author of fiction can face: how to make genuinely good people genuinely interesting, so that they engage not only the sympathies but also the interest of readers Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 01 (00:46:41) Chapter 02 (01:19:04) Chapter 03 (02:01:10) Chapter 04 (02:54:46) Chapter 05 (03:22:34) Chapter 06 (03:54:12) Chapter 07 (04:24:12) Chapter 08 (05:04:13) Chapter 09 (05:32:54) Chapter 10 (06:01:55) Chapter 11 (06:24:53) Chapter 12 (06:59:51) Chapter 13 (07:26:15) Chapter 14 (08:08:16) Chapter 15 (08:32:51) Chapter 16 (08:59:34) Chapter 17 (09:43:11) Chapter 18 (10:24:39) Chapter 19 (10:50:32) Chapter 20 (11:14:20) Chapter 21 (11:53:54) Chapter 22 (12:20:17) Chapter 23 (12:46:41) Chapter 24 (13:24:30) Chapter 25 (14:07:11) Chapter 26 (14:38:42) Chapter 27 (15:15:19) Chapter 28 (15:47:27) Chapter 29 (16:30:23) Chapter 30 (16:51:39) Chapter 31 (17:23:13) Chapter 32 (17:48:35) Chapter 33 (18:19:50) Chapter 34 (19:10:34) Chapter 35 (19:38:02) Chapter 36 (20:01:59) Chapter 37 (20:30:17) Chapter 38 (21:15:00) Chapter 39 (21:41:43) Chapter 40 (22:10:15) Chapter 41 (22:39:20) Chapter 42 (23:19:57) Chapter 43 (23:49:01) Chapter 44 (24:26:13) Chapter 45 (24:55:55) Chapter 46 (25:28:12) Chapter 47 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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