doctors dilemma
de shaw, george bernard
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- ISBN 10
- 0140480013
- ISBN 13
- 9780140480016
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Sinopsis
From the book:On the 15th June 1903, in the early forenoon, a medical student, surname Redpenny, Christian name unknown and of no importance, sits at work in a doctor's consulting-room. He devils for the doctor by answering his letters, acting as his domestic laboratory assistant, and making himself indispensable generally, in return for unspecified advantages involved by intimate intercourse with a leader of his profession, and amounting to an informal apprenticeship and a temporary affiliation. Redpenny is not proud, and will do anything he is asked without reservation of his personal dignity if he is asked in a fellow-creaturely way. He is a wide-open-eyed, ready, credulous, friendly, hasty youth, with his hair and clothes in reluctant transition from the untidy boy to the tidy doctor. Redpenny is interrupted by the entrance of an old serving-woman who has never known the cares, the preoccupations, the responsibilities, jealousies, and anxieties of personal beauty. She has the complexion of a never-washed gypsy, incurable by any detergent; and she has, not a regular beard and moustaches, which could at least be trimmed and waxed into a masculine presentableness, but a whole crop of small beards and moustaches, mostly springing from moles all over her face. She carries a duster and toddles about meddle-somely, spying out dust so diligently that whilst she is flicking off one speck she is already looking elsewhere for another. In conversation she has the same trick, hardly ever looking at the person she is addressing except when she is excited. She has only one manner, and that is the manner of an old family nurse to a child just after it has learnt to walk. She has used her ugliness to secure indulgences unattainable by Cleopatra or Fair Rosamund, and has the further great advantage over them that age increases her qualifi-cation instead of impairing it. Being an industrious, agreeable, and popular old soul, she is a walking sermon on the vanity of feminine prettiness. Just as Redpenny has no discovered Christian name, she has no discovered surname, and is known throughout the doctors' quarter between Cavendish Square and the Marylebone Road simply as Emmy.
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- Librería
- Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 1338370
- Título
- doctors dilemma
- Autor
- shaw, george bernard
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Mass Market
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa blanda
- ISBN 10
- 0140480013
- ISBN 13
- 9780140480016
- Editorial
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Lugar de publicación
- Middlesex
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- June 30, 1950
Términos de venta
Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
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Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
Sobre Sixth Chamber Used Books/Fox Den Books
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