An inspired anthology about physical and psychological illness,
healing, and healers--featuring a brilliant array of classic and
contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore.
This unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of
healing, both physical and psychological, from a wide variety of times
and perspectives. Some of these writers were themselves physicians,
notably Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham, William
Carlos Williams, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov's story, taken from A
Country Doctor's Notebook, draws on his early experience as a young
doctor in rural Russia a century ago, while Anna Kavan's story, from her
collection Asylum Piece, is based on her experience of mental illness.
Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph
Conrad, Graham Greene, J. G. Ballard, Robert Heinlein, Alice Munro, and
Lorrie Moore are among the other writers of medical adventures that fill
these pages. From Chekhov's A Doctor's Visit and William Carlos
Williams's The Paid Nurse to Dorothy Parker's Lady with a Lamp, O.
Henry's Let Me Feel Your Pulse, and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of
Maladies, the stories gathered here are peopled by a colorful and varied
cast of doctors, nurses, and patients.
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on
acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil
stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style
half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.
