A Country Doctor
$35.27
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 July 2005
Summary
A hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewett’s story of a young medical woman remains an incisive rendering of the dilemmas of gender, society, and self. Nan Prince first becomes interested in medicine as a child, as the ward of the widowed physician Dr. Leslie. In time she becomes his protegee. But when she enters medical college, she realizes that she will have to choose between marriage and her career, between the demands of her society and her obligations to …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143039266 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143039261 |
| Author: | Sarah Orne Jewett, Frederick Wegener |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin USA |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 July 2005 |
| Weight: | 261g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine.
Frederick Wegener is an associate professor of English at California State University at Long Beach and the editor of Edith Wharton: The Uncollected Critical Writings.
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