num_pages: 271
description: 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.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
language: English
title: A Country Doctor
titlecomplete: A Country Doctor (Penguin Classics)
genres: Literature, American, Medical, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Read For School, The United States Of America
ratings_count: 566
publisher: Penguin Classics