THE DOCTOR'S CHRISTMAS EVE
A Moving Saga of a Man's Journey through His Life
A middle aged country doctor takes a memory trip down the lane where his personal and professional lives were forever intertwined with each other.
Excerpt:
"The morning of the twenty-fourth of December a quarter of a century ago opened upon the vast plateau of central Kentucky as a brilliant but bitter day—with a wind like the gales of March. Out in a neighborhood of one of the wealthiest and most thickly settled counties, toward the middle of the forenoon, two stumpy figures with movements full of health and glee appeared on a hilltop of the treeless . . ."
James Lane Allen (1849–1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."
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- Artikel-Nr.: SW9788027222599
- Artikelnummer SW9788027222599
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James Lane Allen
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- Verlag Musaicum Books
- Seitenzahl 156
- Veröffentlichung 16.10.2017
- ISBN 9788027222599
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