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A Country Doctor (Paperback)
Sarah Orne Jewett; Introduction by Frederick Wegener; Notes by Frederick Wegener
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R369
Discovery Miles 3 690
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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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 her true self. Inspired by Jewett's
own interests and by her father, A Country Doctor portrays a world
very much in flux and Nan, ultimately, as a woman with a new world
opening to her. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the
leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking
world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a
global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across
genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide
authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by
distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as
up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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