- Fiction, Gardeners, Spain in fiction, Gardeners in fiction
Young Spanish gardener attempts to help 9-year-old Nicholas back to health and to offset the negative influence of a doting father.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- A. J. Cronin
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 221
- Publisher
- John Curley & Assoc, New English Library, Pyramid Books
- Editions
- 22
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780450034831
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Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish doctor who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a doctor in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicine and helped to inspire the National Health Service. The Stars Look Down, set in the North East of England, is another of his best-selling novels inspired by his work among miners. Both novels have been f
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