A Country Doctor
A Country Doctor
By: Sarah Orne Jewett
Softcover ISBN: 9781596881051
Hardcover ISBN: 9781596881051
Subject: Fiction
Inspired by Sarah Orne Jewett’s own father, a doctor in Maine’s rural countryside, A Country Doctor tells the story of Nan Prince, who finds herself the ward of a kindly widowed doctor, Dr. John Leslie. Leslie takes her along on his patient visits and inspires in her a strong interest in medicine and the desire to become a doctor herself.
Title information
Pages: 294
Language: English
Publisher: The Large Print Book Company, LLC
Sarah Orne Jewett
Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) was born and lived most of her life in South Berwick, Maine, the daughter of a country doctor. She is best known for her keenly-observed stories about the people around her, their patterns of speech, their manners and inner lives in Deephaven and other story collections and in her masterpiece, The Country of the Pointed Firs.
Home Town: South Berwick, Maine
Birthplace: South Berwick, Maine