The Country Doctor: Scenes of Country Life
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by Thomas Eakins, Luke Fildes and Gustave Courbet. A doctor comes to a wretched village in the Grande Chartreuse and, over twelve years, makes it prosperous — roads, a school, a market, an industry — and tells the story of his life to a soldier who has come to hear it. Balzac worked at night on fifty cups of coffee a day and died at fifty-one; this is his political book, a village built on paper, and the Napoleonic legend recited by an old soldier in the middle of it is one of his great set pieces. Forty-seven plates by painters including Gustave Courbet and Balthasar Wigand follow the Alpine lake, gorge and village life that surround the doctor's mountain parish.
Complete and unabridged, with 47 full-page plates by Thomas Eakins, Luke Fildes and Gustave Courbet. A doctor comes to a wretched village in the Grande Chartreuse and, over twelve years, makes it prosperous — roads, a school, a market, an industry — and tells the story of his life to a soldier wh...
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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines French society across the Restoration and the July Monarchy.
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) was a French novelist and playwright who worked in Paris. He is known for his series of interlinked novels and stories, La Comédie Humaine, which includes Father Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, The Magic Skin, and The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau. His fiction examines Fr...
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