The Best Medicine Stories Of Healing

Description: An inspired anthology about physical and psychological illness healing and healers - - featuring a brilliant array of classic and contemporary writers from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore. This unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of healing both physical and psychological from a wide variety of times and perspectives. Some of these writers were themselves physicians notably Anton Chekhov Arthur Conan Doyle Somerset Maugham William Carlos Williams and Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov's story taken from A Country Doctor's Notebook draws on his early experience as a young doctor in rural Russia a century ago while Anna Kavan's story from her collection Asylum Piece is based on her experience of mental illness. Guy de Maupassant Robert Louis Stevenson Rudyard Kipling Joseph Conrad Graham Greene J. G. Ballard Robert Heinlein Alice Munro and Lorrie Moore are among the other writers of medical adventures that fill these pages. From Chekhov's " A Doctor's Visit" and William Carlos Williams's " The Paid Nurse" to Dorothy Parker's " Lady with a Lamp " O. Henry's " Let Me Feel Your Pulse " and Jhumpa Lahiri's " Interpreter of Maladies " the stories gathered here are peopled by a colorful and varied cast of doctors nurses and patients. Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards printing on acid - free cream - colored paper with full - cloth cases with two - color foil stamping decorative endpapers silk ribbon markers European - style half - round spines and a full - color illustrated jacket.
Title: The Best Medicine Stories Of Healing
Barcode: 9780593318584
Publication Date: 3/9/2021
Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics Series