title: Autumn Odyssey: An International Romantic Adventure
author: Dr. Thomas L. Wells
description: Thomas Wells, professor emeritus at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia is a native of North Carolina. He was educated at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC with a BS and an MA; and he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. He has lived in Norfolk, Virginia; Los Angeles, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Heidelberg, Germany; and the cities of Prague and Brno in the Czech Republic. After retirement he returned to his small eastern North Carolina hometown which had been the locale for many of his short stories. He has three grown sons. His earlier novel, RED PANTHERS, is a fictionalized version of a plot by a group of disgruntled old communists who hoped to reestablish communism in the Czech Republic and throughout all of Eastern Europe. The ideas for his novels have come from his two years teaching English as a foreign language at Masarykova University in the city of Brno, Czech Republic and from the many stories his students told him about their lives under the oppressive rule of the communists. Both books are available at Amazon.com.
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  [I THE GRESHAMS OF GRESHAMSBURY  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_001.html#filepos5447)[II LONG, LONG AGO  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_001.html#filepos42561)[III DR THORNE  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_001.html#filepos68830)[IV LESSONS FROM COURCY CASTLE  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_001.html#filepos102853)[V FRANK GRESHAM'S FIRST SPEECH  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_002.html#filepos147773)[VI FRANK GRESHAM'S EARLY LOVES  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_002.html#filepos171501)[VII THE DOCTOR'S GARDEN  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_002.html#filepos197199)[VIII MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTS  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_002.html#filepos220339)[IX SIR ROGER SCATCHERD  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_002.html#filepos252852)[X SIR ROGER'S WILL  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_002.html#filepos276435)[XI THE DOCTOR DRINKS HIS TEA  
    
  ](Dr%20Thorne_split_003.html#filepos301274)[XII WHEN GREEK MEETS GREEK, THEN
  COMES THE TUG OF WAR  
    
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