Bibliograph

The best medicine, stories of healing, edited by Theodore Dalrymple

Type

Label

The best medicine, stories of healing, edited by Theodore Dalrymple

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

The best medicine

Oclc number

1162746266

Responsibility statement

edited by Theodore Dalrymple

Series statement

Everyman's pocket classics

Sub title

stories of healing

Summary

"An anthology of short stories about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring an array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

The doctor's experience. A doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov -- The forger / Samuel Warren -- The hard and the human / Elizabeth Berridge -- Sweethearts / Arthur Conan Doyle -- The embroidered towel / Mikhail Bulgakov -- The body-snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Minus one / J.G. Ballard -- Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri -- Consultations. Back to back / W.W. Jacobs -- A coup d'état / Guy de Maupassant -- Doctor Crombie / Graham Greene -- Airing a grievance / Anna Kavan -- Lord Mountdrago / W. Somerset Maugham -- I had to go sick / Julian Maclaren-Ross -- People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore / Dealing with illness. 'Swept and garnished' / Rudyard Kipling -- Let me feel your pulse -- O. Henry -- The paid nurse / William Carlos Williams -- Amy Foster / Joseph Conrad -- Lady with a lamp / Dorothy Parker -- Life-line / Robert A. Heinlein -- I will keep her company / Rhys Davies -- The moons of Jupiter / Alice Munro

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