Ebook
The District Doctor and Other Stories
Ebook · Sovereign
The District Doctor and Other Stories
- Author
- Ivan Turgenev
- Series
- World Classics
- Language
- English
- Length
- 182 pages
- ISBN
- 9781910150054
- Published
- 15 December 2013
- Imprint
- Sovereign
- Turgenev
- romance
- nihilism
- classic fiction
- intense
- thought provoking
- historical
- philosophical
Description
A country doctor’s round, and the lives that stop at his door. Turgenev’s District Doctor leads a set of stories about duty, pity, and the Russian provinces — love that cannot be prescribed, service that does not save everyone. Short fiction with a stethoscope and a sigh. The doctor tells of a house-call that became a confession. Around it, Turgenev’s quieter Russia: estates, chance meetings, pity that has hours but not a cure. A house-call that turns into a confession the stethoscope cannot close.