by Conan Doyle · Cluster: Domestic and Social Fiction · Romantic Love · Class
Abstract
In letters to an American friend, young doctor Stark Munro recounts his stormy partnership with the brilliant, unscrupulous, and bankrupt James Cullingworth, and his own struggle to establish an independent medical practice while wrestling openly with religious doubt and rationalist conviction. Semi-autobiographical, the novel traces Doyle’s own early years as a struggling physician.
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- Part 1
- Part 2
- Part 3
- Part 4
- Part 5
- Part 6
- Part 7
- Part 8
- Part 9
- Part 10
- Part 11
- Part 12
- Part 13
- Part 14
- Part 15
- Part 16
Connections
Forms & Genres: Epistolary Diary Novel, Fictional Autobiography, Bildungsroman Themes & Concepts: Faith and Doubt, Ambition, Friendship, Poverty, Self-Reliance, Reason and Rationalism Motifs: Letters and Writing, Money and Gold Characters: Stark Munro, James Cullingworth Archetypes: Trickster, Self-Made Man Topoi: Journey of Life