A Country Doctor Lib/E (Audiobook)

from etxgardener

Somehow I had never read a book by Sarah Orne Jewett, so I was glad to be introduced to her through a book group as this book is a remarkable feminist novel for being written in 1884. Anna Prince is brought to her grandmother's house in Maine by her dying mother, and then is taken to live with th...

from majorbabs

Not as good as the Pointed Firs, but still very readable.

from vesnaslav

Through the dialogue and incidental plot progression, even through the characterization of major and minor characters, it is easy to see Jewett's great influence on the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery. As we read the opening chapters of Anne of Green Gables, we see so much of Jewett's small ...

from LukeS

Nan Price was orphaned in infancy, then raised by her grandmother, until her upbringing is finished by Dr. John Leslie. A case can certainly be made that the eponymous doctor is our Dr. Leslie, rather than the heroine. But I won't make that case now. Definitely a product of its time, "A Country D...

from m.belljackson

Beautiful descriptions of country locales in all the seasons interweave with a gradually evolving feminist plot. Still wonder why Nan could not combine her chosen Country Doctor career with an eventual marriage as did her guardian and wise teacher, Dr. Leslie. Grandmother Thatcher and Marilla a...