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A Country Doctor Paperback - 2005
by Sarah Orne Jewett; Introduction by Frederick Wegener; Notes by Frederick Wegener
Brimming with period realism and layers of thematic depth, this novel is both a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semi-autobiographical look at Jewett's world in the late 19th century. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett's own conflicts. It also eloquently gives voice to the women's issues of Jewett's time, cementing her as an icon in American literature. Introduction by Paula Blanchard.
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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 protégée. 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.
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Though not as well-known as the writers she influenced, Sarah Orne Jewett nevertheless remains one of the most important American novelists of the late nineteenth century.
Published in 1884, Jewett's first novel, A Country Doctor, is a luminous portrayal of rural Maine and a semiautobiographical look at her world. In it, Nan's struggle to choose between marriage and a career as a doctor, between the confining life of a small town and a self-directed one as a professional, mirrors Jewett's own conflicts as well as eloquently giving voice to the leading women's issues of her time. Perhaps even more importantly, Jewett's perfect details about wild flowers and seaside wharfs, farm women knitting by the fireside and sailors going upriver to meet the moonlight convey a realism that has seldom been surpassed and stamp her writing with her signature style.
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- Title A Country Doctor
- Author Sarah Orne Jewett; Introduction by Frederick Wegener; Notes by Frederick Wegener
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 2005-07-26
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143039266 / 0143039261
- Weight 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
- Dimensions 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.59 in (19.56 x 13.21 x 1.50 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1300
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- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Maine
- Library of Congress subjects New England, Women physicians
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004058739
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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