Барсетширские хроники. Книга 2. Доктор Торн

Ėntoni Trollop - britanskiĭ klassik, sovremennai͡a populi͡arnostʹ kotorogo v angloi͡azychnom mire mozhet sravnitʹsi͡a razve chto so slavoĭ Dzheĭn Ostin ("Trollop ubivaet meni͡a svoim masterstvom", - pisal v svoem dnevnike Lev Tolstoĭ), a "Barsetshirskie khroniki" zasluzhenno schitai͡utsi͡a edva li ne glavnym ego dostizheniem. "Doktor Torn" - tretʹi͡a kniga "Khronik". "Te, kto schitaet, budto nemolodoĭ, nezhenatyĭ selʹskiĭ doktor v geroi ne goditsi͡a, pustʹ nazovut knigu „Li͡ubovi i prikli͡uchenii͡a Frėnsisa Nʹi͡ubolda Greshema-mladshego"", - ironichno pishet Trollop v pervoĭ glave. Itak, molodomu Frėnsisu Greshemu predstoit vybratʹ, zhenitʹsi͡a emu na bogatoĭ naslednit͡se, chtoby spasti rodovoe pomestʹe, ili podchinitʹsi͡a svoemu serdt͡su. A doktorskoĭ plemi͡annit͡se Mėri Torn predstoit reshitʹ, vprave li ona vyĭti zamuzh za li͡ubimogo. I khoti͡a doktor Torn starshe i mudree oboikh, a glavnoe, znaet to, chto nevedomo ni im, ni semʹe Frėnsisa, imenno on dolzhen budet sdelatʹ samyĭ trudnyĭ moralʹnyĭ vybor. Zdesʹ my vstretim nekotorykh poli͡ubivshikhsi͡a geroev pervykh dvukh "Khronik", a takzhe novykh koloritnykh personazheĭ. Po knige sni͡at miniserial (st͡senarist Dzhulian Fellouz, sozdatelʹ "Abbatstva Daunton").

Anthony Trollope is a British classic whose modern popularity in the English—speaking world can only be compared with the fame of Jane Austen ("Trollope kills me with his skill," Leo Tolstoy wrote in his diary), and the Barsetshire Chronicles are deservedly considered almost his main achievement. "Dr. Thorne" is the third book of the Chronicles. "Those who think that an elderly, unmarried rural doctor is not suitable for heroes, let them name the book The Loves and Adventures of Francis Newbold Gresham Jr.," Trollope writes ironically in the first chapter. So, young Francis Gresham has to choose whether to marry a rich heiress to save his family estate, or to obey his heart. And the doctor's niece Mary Thorne will have to decide whether she has the right to marry her lover. And although Dr. Thorne is older and wiser than both of them, and most importantly, he knows things that neither they nor Francis' family know, it is he who will have to make the most difficult moral choice. Here we will meet some of the favorite characters of the first two "Chronicles", as well as new colorful characters. A miniseries was made based on the book (screenwriter Julian Fellowes, creator of "Downton Abbey").