Doctor Thorne is the third novel in Anthony Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire and is often considered one of his most popular works. The story centers on the titular character, the honorable and kind Doctor Thomas Thorne, and his beloved niece, Mary. Mary is sweet-natured and beautiful but has a shadow over her birth; she is the illegitimate daughter of the doctor's ne'er-do-well brother and Mary Scatcherd, the sister of a wealthy, self-made stonemason, Sir Roger Scatcherd. Doctor Thorne raises Mary as his own, but her lack of pedigree and fortune makes her an unsuitable match in the eyes of the gentry, particularly the Greshams of Greshambury. The heir of the estate, Frank Gresham, has been commanded by his financially strained family to marry money to save the family property. Despite this pressure, Frank and Mary, who have grown up together, fall deeply in love. The novel’s central conflict is the struggle between romantic love and social obligation. The plot is complicated by the immense wealth of the Scatcherd family and a secret known only to Doctor Thorne: that Mary is, in fact, the heiress to Sir Roger's fortune. Trollope masterfully builds suspense and explores themes of class, morality, and the true meaning of wealth, all while delivering a rich satire of Victorian society and its mercenary attitudes toward marriage.

Table of Contents:

• Doctor Thorne. Part 1

• Doctor Thorne. Part 2

• Doctor Thorne. Part 3

• Doctor Thorne. Part 4

• Doctor Thorne. Part 5

• Doctor Thorne. Part 6

• Doctor Thorne. Part 7

• Doctor Thorne. Part 8

• Doctor Thorne. Part 9

• Doctor Thorne. Part 10

• Doctor Thorne. Part 11