Sarah Orne Jewett
A Country Doctor
Paperback
(The Large Print Book Company Sept. 28, 2007)
A Country Doctor was inspired by Jewett's own father, a doctor in Maine s rural countryside. The heroine of this novel, Nan Prince, finds herself the ward of a kindly widowed doctor, Dr. John Leslie, who takes her along on his patient visits and inspires in her an interest in medicine and the desire to become a doctor herself. Despite the disapproval of the women around her with Dr. Leslie s encouragement she does pursue a medical career even though it means declining a sincere offer of marriage.
- ISBN
- 1596881054 / 9781596881051
- Pages
- 292
- Weight
- 14.7 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.5
in.