The best medicine : stories of healing

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    • Dalrymple, Theodore

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The best medicine : stories of healing

edited by Theodore Dalrymple

（Everyman's Library pocket classics）

Alfred A. Knopf, 2021

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Summary: "An anthology of short stories about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring an array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore"-- Provided by publisher

Contents of Works

  • The doctor's experience. A doctor's visit / Anton Chekhov
  • The forger / Samuel Warren
  • The hard and the human / Elizabeth Berridge
  • Sweethearts / Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The embroidered towel / Mikhail Bulgakov
  • The body-snatcher / Robert Louis Stevenson
  • Minus one / J.G. Ballard
  • Interpreter of maladies / Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Consultations. Back to back / W.W. Jacobs
  • A coup d'état / Guy de Maupassant
  • Doctor Crombie / Graham Greene
  • Airing a grievance / Anna Kavan
  • Lord Mountdrago / W. Somerset Maugham
  • I had to go sick / Julian Maclaren-Ross
  • People like that are the only people here : canonical babbling in Peed Onk / Lorrie Moore / Dealing with illness. 'Swept and garnished' / Lorrie Moore / Dealing with illness. 'Swept and garnished' / Rudyard Kipling
  • Let me feel your pulse
  • O. Henry
  • The paid nurse / William Carlos Williams
  • Amy Foster / Joseph Conrad
  • Lady with a lamp / Dorothy Parker
  • Life-line / Robert A. Heinlein
  • I will keep her company / Rhys Davies
  • The moons of Jupiter / Alice Munro

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