Round the Red Lamp - Couverture rigide

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1421808048 ISBN 13 : 9781421808048

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2006

Synopsis

I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no good from stories which attempt to treat some features of medical life with a certain amount of realism. If you deal with this life at all, however, and if you are anxious to make your doctors something more than marionettes, it is quite essential that you should paint the darker side, since it is that which is principally presented to the surgeon or physician. He sees many beautiful things, it is true, fortitude and heroism, love and self-sacrifice; but they are all called forth (as our nobler qualities are always called forth) by bitter sorrow and trial. One cannot write of medical life and be merry over it. Then why write of it, you may ask? If a subject is painful why treat it at all? I answer that it is the province of fiction to treat painful things as well as cheerful ones. The story which wiles away a weary hour fulfils an obviously good purpose, but not more so, I hold, than that which helps to emphasise the graver side of life. A tale which may startle the reader out of his usual grooves of thought, and shocks him into seriousness, plays the part of the alterative and tonic in medicine, bitter to the taste but bracing in the result. There are a few stories in this little collection which might have such an effect, and I have so far shared in your feeling that I have reserved them from serial publication. In book-form the reader can see that they are medical stories, and can, if he or she be so minded, avoid them.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. Sent off to boarding school, he cut his teeth as a story-teller amusing his schoolmates with tales and writing letters home to his mother.He practiced medicine and, in 1900, volunteered as a medic in Africa during the Boer War - he was later knighted for his service. Doyle lost a son, two brothers in law, and two nephews to the Great War. He is remembered for the Sherlock Holmes stories and his novel The Lost World.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Doyle was a doctor, and in Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life, he takes as his subject the medical profession. He comments on the hardships, patience, and sacrifices involved in bringing comfort to the needy and sick.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1421808048
• ISBN 13: 9781421808048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 284
• Éditeur: 1st World Library, 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible