Doctor Thomas Thorne is guardian to his beautiful but impecunious niece, Mary, whose parentage he has always kept secret. Mary falls in love with Frank Gresham, heir to the dwindling Greshamsbury estate, but when Frank proposes, his parents insist that he must marry for money to restore his family's fortunes. Frank is torn between his love for Mary and his sense of familial duty, whilst Doctor Thorne must decide whether to reveal the secret he has kept for so long. In Doctor Thorne Trollope explores themes of money and society and the conflict between tradition and the need for change. Part of the 'Chronicles of Barsetshire' series on which Trollope's reputation primarily rests, it outsold all of his other novels during his lifetime. This gorgeous edition features an afterword by Ned Halley. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Doctor Thorne

Indefer Jones, le proprietaire de Llanfeare, devenu vieux, est assailli par le doute quant au choix de son heritier. Il choisit d'abord sa niece preferee, Isabel Broderick, puis son neveu Henry Jones, qu'il deteste cordialement, mais c'est un Jones... Il finit par faire un troisieme testament, juste avant sa mort, par lequel il choisit Isabel. Mais ce dernier demeure introuvable. Pas tout a fait car Henry, heritier designe en l'absence du troisieme testament, sait que ce dernier se trouve dans un livre de sermons que son oncle lisait peu avant sa mort."

Le Cousin

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire (The Warden + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset)" contains 6 novels in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Chronicles of Barsetshire (or, in more recent UK usage, the Barchester Chronicles) is a series of six novels by the English author Anthony Trollope, set in the fictitious English county of Barsetshire (located approximately where the real Dorset lies) and its cathedral town of Barchester. The novels concern the dealings of the clergy and the gentry, and the political, amatory, and social manoeuvrings that go on among and between them.
The novels in the series are:
The Warden (1855)
Barchester Towers (1857)
Doctor Thorne (1858)
Framley Parsonage (1861)
The Small House at Allington (1864)
The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867)
Anthony Trollope (1815 -  1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. Some of his best-loved works, collectively known as the Chronicles of Barsetshire, revolve around the imaginary county of Barsetshire. He also wrote perceptive novels on political, social, and gender issues, and on other topical matters.

The Complete Chronicles of Barsetshire (The Warden + Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset)

Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbours among whom, our doctor followed his profession.

There is a county in the west of England not so full of life, indeed, nor so widely spoken of as some of its manufacturing leviathan brethren in the north, but which is, nevertheless, very dear to those who know it well. Its green pastures, its waving wheat, its deep and shady and-let us add-dirty lanes, its paths and stiles, its tawny-coloured, well-built rural churches, its avenues of beeches, and frequent Tudor mansions, its constant county hunt, its social graces, and the general air of clanship which pervades it, has made it to its own inhabitants a favoured land of Goshen. It is purely agricultural; agricultural in its produce, agricultural in its poor, and agricultural in its pleasures.

Le Docteur Thorne, qui a valu � Anthony Trollope son plus grand succ�s, constitue (en 1858) l'une des premi�res apparitions dans le roman anglais du personnage du m�decin, appel� � un bel avenir litt�raire. Les rapports entre le mariage et l'argent, dans une soci�t� in�galitaire mais mobile, sont au coeur d'une intrigue attachante. Le docteur Thorne, c�libataire endurci, a recueilli chez lui sa ni�ce Mary, orpheline, qui est devenue une belle jeune fille. Il souffre de la voir mise � l'�cart par la bonne soci�t� du village, du fait qu'elle est de naissance obscure et sans fortune. Elle ne saurait �pouser celui qu'elle aime, Frank Gresham, un jeune h�ritier d�sargent� qui l'aime �galement, mais dont le devoir est d'�pouser � une fortune � pour sauver le domaine familial hypoth�qu�. Trollope nous offre ici un magnifique roman d'amour, qui se distingue, comme toujours, par la richesse psychologique de ses personnages, l'int�r�t de son �tude de moeurs et son inspiration aimablement satirique. Traduit de l'anglais, pr�fac� et annot� par Alain Jumeau

Le Docteur Thorne

'What! to come here a stranger, a young, unknown, and unfriended stranger, and tell us, in the name of the bishop his master, that we are ignorant of our duties, old-fashioned, and useless!'
Trollope's comic masterpiece of plotting and backstabbing opens as the Bishop of Barchester lies on his deathbed. Soon a pitched battle breaks out over who will take power, involving, among others, the zealous reformer Dr Proudie, his fiendish wife and the unctuous schemer Obadiah Slope. Barchester Towers is one of the best-loved novels in Trollope's Chronicles of Barsetshire series, which captured nineteenth-century provincial England with wit, worldly wisdom and an unparalleled gift for characterization. It is the second book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire.

Les tours de Barchester

Roman traduit de l’anglais, preface et annote par Alain Jumeau Plantagenet Palliser, duc d Omnium et ancien Premier ministre d Angleterre, perd brutalement sa femme aimee, Lady Glencora. Il se retrouve bien seul pour affronter plusieurs difficultes serieuses avec ses trois enfants: ses deux fils se font renvoyer de leurs colleges respectifs, et sa fille se lie a un jeune homme dont la famille n appartient qu a la gentry, ce qui fait craindre une mesalliance. Les Enfants du duc sont bien dans la maniere d'Anthony Trollope, grand romancier de la societe victorienne. Politique et familiale a la fois, l'intrigue est menee avec vivacite et subtilite. On se laisse facilement prendre (meme sans avoir lu les precedents episodes du cycle - Palliser -, que vient clore ce roman) a ce conflit de generations entre un pere aux nobles sentiments et une fratrie qui, dans la transgression meme, ne manque ni de style ni de c ur. Promene dans ce monde desormais tres exotique pour lui l aristocratie anglaise du XIXe siecle, le lecteur s attache aux nombreux personnages souvent hauts en couleur. Il s amuse et s emeut tour a tour.Anthony Trollope est ne a Londres en 1815 et mort en 1882. Fils d un avocat rate et d une femme de lettres qui eut une certaine notoriete, il fit carriere comme inspecteur des postes jusqu en 1867. Entre 1847, date de parution de son premier livre et sa mort, il publia pres de cinquante romans, ainsi que des nouvelles, et connut une grande celebrite."

Les Enfants Du Duc

Dans une Angleterre victorienne corsetée pas les convenances, Rachel vit avec sa mère, Mrs Ray, et sa soeur aînée, Mrs Prime, dans un cottage près de Baslehurst. Lors d'une promenade, Rachel fait la connaissance de Luke Rowan, héritier de la brasserie Bungall & Tappitt dont elle tombe amoureuse. Mrs Ray et la très prude Mrs Prime imaginent aussitôt Rachel en perdition ! Dans ce petit monde provincial où sévissent cupidité et bigoterie, comment les deux tourtereaux vont-ils se faire une place ? Anthony Trollope nous embarque dans une histoire d'amour pleine d'ironie où de jeunes gens épris de modernité viennent s'opposer aux conventions, aux traditions, et mettre à mal le vieux monde. Et la tâche est loin d'être facile. Personnages romantiques, grotesques ou attachants, humour pince-sans-rire, peinture décapante de la société victorienne, Rachel Ray est un véritable régal pour le lecteur.

Rachel Ray

The site of the present city of Washington was chosen with three special views; firstly, that being on the Potomac it might have the full advantage of water-carriage and a sea-port; secondly, that it might be so far removed from the seaboard as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed when Washington was founded that these three advantages would be secured by the selected position. As regards the first, the Potomac affords to the city but few of the advantages of a sea-port. Ships can come up, but not ships of large burthen. The river seems to have dwindled since the site was chosen; and at present it is, I think, evident that Washington can never be great in its shipping. Statio benefida carinis can never be its motto. As regards the second point, singularly enough Washington is the only city of the Union that has been in an enemy's possession since the United States became a nation. In the war of 1812 it fell into our hands, and we burnt it. As regards the third point, Washington, from the lie of the land, can hardly have been said to be centrical at any time. Owing to the irregularities of the coast it is not easy of access by railways from different sides. Baltimore would have been far better. But as far as we can now see, and as well as we can now judge, Washington will soon be on the borders of the nation to which it belongs, instead of at its centre. I fear, therefore, that we must acknowledge that the site chosen for his country's capital by George Washington has not been fortunate.
I have a strong idea, which I expressed before in speaking of the capital of the Canadas, that no man can ordain that on such a spot shall be built a great and thriving city. No man can so ordain even though he leave behind him, as was the case with Washington, a prestige sufficient to bind his successors to his wishes. The political leaders of the country have done what they could for Washington. The pride of the nation has endeavoured to sustain the character of its chosen metropolis. There has been no rival, soliciting favour on the strength of other charms. The country has all been agreed on the point since the father of the country first commenced the work.

Doctor Thorne

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