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THE DOCTOR?S CHRISTMAS EVE IBD

GLOBAL BOOK COMPANY
09 / 2023
9781835522325
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Sinopsis

'The morning of the twenty-fourth of December a quarter of a century ago opened upon the vast plateau of central Kentucky as a brilliant but bitter day-with a wind like the gales of March.Out in a neighborhood of one of the wealthiest and most thickly settled counties, toward the middle of the forenoon, two stumpy figures with movements full of health and glee appeared on a hilltop of the treeless . . .'ááA middle aged country doctor takes a memory trip down the lane where his personal and professional lives were forever intertwined with each other.áJames Lane Allen (1849-1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky.áHis work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction.áAllen has been described as 'KentuckyâÇÖs first important novelist.'á

PVP
14,31