- Paperback: 380 pages
- Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (25 April 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0575600039
- ISBN-13: 978-0575600034
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 11.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 162,942 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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When newly-qualified doctor Andrew Manson takes up his first post with a Welsh mining community he is full of idealism and enthusiasm. However, he finds that the reality of practising medicine in primitive conditions very different from the theory, and he makes enemies as well as friends.
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A. J. Cronin was born in Scotland in 1896. In 1914 he entered the Faculty of Medicine at Glasgow University, but his studies were interrupted by war service as a surgeon sub-lieutenant in the Navy. He graduated in 1919, and was later appointed Medical Inspector of Mines. He practised medicine in London until ill-health made him return to literature, and he wrote many hugely successful novels, including the famous Dr Finlay series. He was married with three sons, and died in 1981.
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LATE one October afternoon in the year 1921, a shabby young man gazed with fixed intensity through the widow of a third-class compartment in the almost empty train labouring up the Penowell valley from Swansea. Read the first page
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LATE one October afternoon in the year 1921, a shabby young man gazed with fixed intensity through the widow of a third-class compartment in the almost empty train labouring up the Penowell valley from Swansea. Read the first page
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent book which though written in the 1930s seems an accurate portrayal of medicine today. The book, like its American counterpart Arrowsmith, deals with the commercialisation of medicine and how one young idealist gradually becomes corrupted. Whilst admittedly the characterisation of female characters is somewhat shallow the plot is incredibly engaging as are the lessons about poverty and ill-heallth and medicine and money. Should be made required reading for any doctor or patient.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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It has been some time since I have read this book but is still sticks in my memory and must be one of my favourite titles. I can honestly say it's is the first book ever to reduce me to tears which has to be down to the Authors skill. As a highly stressed Analyst I always tend to choose uncomplicated easy to read novels and this one fitted the bill perpectly, without being boring and uninteresting. Set in the early part of the last century, the book tells the story of a young doctor who losses his principals along the way and finds out the hard way how not to succeed. Coming from a mining background, albeit Scotland, I felt I could relate to some of the issues in the early part of the story. Tinged with a bit of medical history it charts the lives of two main characters. Although essentially a love story the book does not have the usual slushy ending you would expect, but I won't go into that.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I read Cronin's The Citadel as part of a source review for university and really enjoyed Cronins portrayal of a young Scottish doctor trying to develop his medical career in Wales. I really enjoyed this book not only for entertainment value but it highlights the developments in medicine in the early twentieth century and the doctors attitudes to the use of new techniques. The book also discusses the way in which doctors climbed the medical career ladder by starting off as an assistant, establishing their own register of private patients and establishing their own surgery. Cronin also discusses the character's position in a voluntary hospital which was common for doctors at this time to gain status and prestige for their work and also the much desired success of establishing themselves in London especially in the Harley Street area. It is interesting to note that the author is also responsible for the television series Dr Finlays casebook and is useful for anyone studying the History of Medicine as I am.
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Gripping, moving and thought-provoking
To me this is Cronin's masterpiece. A gripping narrative from beginning to end, real characters with admirable strengths but also human weaknesses, and a historic portrayal of... Read more
Published on 7 Oct 2009 by Mr. Ian C. Kemp
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An outstandingly good read. Hard-hitting; powerful prose and written within living memory.
Can't recommend it enough!
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Can't recommend it enough!
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Published on 16 July 2009 by Mr. M. Hooker
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This book is important to me for the way it reveals the trials of medicine before the National Health Service. Read more
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Brilliant, probably the best book I've ever read!
That pretty much sums it up! Basically, it's a rags to riches story for a doctor who finds out the hard way that money cannot buy you happiness as well as exposing how flawed the... Read more
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Came highly recommended and lived up to its expectations.
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