"Doctor Thorne"
Doctor Thorne is the third book in the "Chronicles of Barset" series, by Anthony Trollope. (The Warden, reviewed here, is the first; the second, Barchester Towers, is quite funny, but I have nothing in particular to say about it.) Its plot is, at bottom, one of the old standbys: two young people fall in love and must overcome various obstacles before they can marry. There isn't a lot of suspense, either; the reader learns fairly early just how those obstacles will be overcome. Nonetheless, the story is quite interesting, as a picture of social conditions in England in the early Victorian period.
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