The best medicine : stories of healing
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The best medicine : stories of healing
(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