Browse by category
A Country Doctor by Sarah Orne Jewett
Category: Fiction
A forgotten nineteenth-century classic novel about a young woman torn between her passion for medicine and what society expects of her."Perfection . . . beautiful and delicate work."-Willa CatherBright, vivacious, and "wild as a hawk," Nan Prince is an orphan adopted by the local general practitioner, D ...Show more
Country Doctor A by Jewett Sarah Orne
Category: Fiction
A hundred and thirty years after it was first published, Sarah Orne Jewettas 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 ...Show more
The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett
Category: Fiction | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The story of an endearing, unlikely friendship set against the backdrop of a remote and beautiful Maine coastal town, The Country of the Pointed Firs is one of Sarah Orne Jewett's most loved works, and it quickly earned her a reputation as a talented writer upon its publication. Praised by Alice Brown f ...Show more
0 - 5 of 6