The complete online text of Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope.

The English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) wrote a series of novels that chronicle the everyday life of middle-class Victorians. Quietly humorous and at times satirical, his works reveal the vigorous and modest good nature of their author. After t...

"I do lay claim to whatever merit should be accorded to me for persevering diligence in my profession," Anthony Trollope wrote in one of the concluding paragraphs of An Autobiography (1883). No one has ever been able to deny him that claim: as the author...

"I do lay claim to whatever merit should be accorded to me for persevering diligence in my profession," Anthony Trollope wrote in one of the concluding paragraphs of his Autobiography (1883). No one has ever been able to deny him that claim: as the autho...

In his autobiography, Anthony Trollope says that the idea for The Warden came to him on a surveying trip near Winchester, "whilst wandering there on a midsummer evening round the purlieus of the cathedral." The ancient environs and the Anglican traditions they evoked...

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