'Doc.' Gordon

'Doc.' Gordon

'Doc.' Gordon

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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Wildside Press
Año de edición:
2005
Materia
Fantasía
ISBN:
9781557422934

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Originally published in 1936, here is a charming novel of a rural doctor's life, trials, and tribulations. Barter, conniving horse traders, and more face 'Doc.' Gordon on his rural rounds! MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and died in Metuchen, New Jersey. Among her published regional short fiction and novels are A Humble Romance and Other Stories, A New England Nun and Other Stories, Jane Field, and The Portion of Labor. In 1926 she received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in fiction. That same year, she and Edith Wharton were among the first women to be elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. 3

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