A Country Doctor

A hundred and thirty years after it was first published Sarah Orne Jewett&#146;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 prot&#233;g&#233;e. 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&#146;s own interests and by her father <i>A Country Doctor</i>&#160;portrays a world very much in flux and Nan ultimately as a woman with a new world opening to her.<br><br>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700&#160;titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the&#160;series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date&#160;translations by award-winning translators.