A Country Doctor Audio Book MP3-CD Unabridged

A Country Doctor
Author: Sarah Orne Jewett
Reader: Kate Reading

Marriage or career? This choice is far from new. This warm story of rural 19th century Maine tells of a woman struggling to choose between marriage and her medical career. She also looks carefully at the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional. Published in 1884, this story mirrors Jewett's own conflicts and eloquently gives voice to the leading women's issues of her time. » Read More

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Publish Date: 08/01/2004
ISBN: 9780786184156

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Semi-autobiographical and regarded as Jewett's most feminist book, the novel concerns the orphan Nan Price as she travels with her guardian, Dr. Leslie, on his rounds. Nan decides to become a doctor herself despite being in love with a man who expects more traditional things of her, and she must come to terms with her own expectations of her life.

Author Bio:

Born in Maine and the daughter of a physician, Sarah Orne Jewett used her surroundings as key elements in her writing. She wrote from childhood, and published her first story in the September 1873 issue of the Atlantic Monthly when she was 18. Over the course of her 30-year career, she published 150 tales in mass-circulation magazines, as well as children's stories, several novels, and a history. Her stories are known for their sparseness, their realistic detail, their clean and clear expository style. She lived and traveled with with Annie Fields, the widow of a publisher, from her early 30s until the end of her life. The two women were friends with many prominent artists and intellectuals, among them Kipling, Howells, and James. In the late 1800s, Jewett suffered an accident in a carriage that essentially put an end to her writing, although she continued to befriend and advise other writers, such as Willa Cather.

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Biography & Autobiography » Medical » Women Physicians
Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Freedom & Constraints
Fiction Themes » Conflicts & Dualities » Love & Duty
Fiction Themes » Family & Friendship » Orphans
Fiction Themes » Human Qualities & Behavior » Self-realization
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Autobiographical
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Pastoral
Fiction Themes » Literary Genres & Types Of Novels » Sense Of Place
Fiction Themes » Types Of Characters » Doctors, Physicians
Juvenile Fiction » Health & Daily Living / General » Physicians - Fiction
Medical » Physicians » Women Physicians
Social Science » Sociology / Rural » Country Life

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