- Physicians, After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life, Practice, Satire
Originally published in 1925, after three years of anticipation, the book follows the life of Martin Arrowsmith, a rather ordinary fellow who gets his first taste of medicine at 14 as an assistant to the drunken physician in his home town.
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Classical in form, prestige, spare and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- sparerichly built
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Sinclair Lewis
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 462
- Publisher
- Independently Published, International Collectors Library, Mlada Front; Smena; Našw Vojsko; Svět Sovětu
- Editions
- 150
- Language
- Spanish, cze, heb, English
- ISBN
- 9798686675674
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- Physicians
- After years of work as a small town doctor and a research scientist, Arrowsmith heads for the West Indies with a serum to halt an epidemic. A tragic turn of events forces him to come to terms with his career and his personal life
- Practice
- Satire
- Pulitzer Prize Winner
- Fiction
- Medicine in literature
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- Medicine
- Medical ethics
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