The Doctor.: A Tale of the Rockies. - Couverture souple

Connor, Ralph Ralph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1444471848 ISBN 13 : 9781444471847

Editeur : Aeterna, 2026

Synopsis

From the quiet strength of the old stone mill to the hard grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, The Doctor follows a life shaped by duty, temptation, love, and service. Ralph Connor tells the story of Barney Boyle, a gifted young man whose promise as a physician is tested not only by hardship, but by the tangled claims of ambition, honour, friendship, and the heart. In a world of manse, schoolhouse, dance, settlement, and frontier camp, personal choices carry lasting consequences, and the call to heal becomes a call to moral courage. Around Barney move women of strength and mystery, rough men in need of saving, and communities where faith, pride, scandal, and forgiveness meet. As the story widens from youthful longing to the fierce demands of medical work in the Crow’s Nest country, Connor blends romance, frontier drama, religious feeling, and social observation into a tale of sacrifice and redemption. The Doctor is more than a story of one man’s profession: it is a searching novel about what it means to spend oneself for others, to face death bravely, and to discover that love, at its deepest, may ask everything and yet give life back at the final, solemn call.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Aeterna
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1444471848
• ISBN 13: 9781444471847
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible