Country Adventures

Arthur Conan Doyle was an author in whom detective writing and travel naturally merged, along with a passion for science and spiritualism, as well as the work of a writer and a doctor. Remaining faithful throughout his life to his medical vocation and drawing inspiration from it, the master wrote: “...any doctor should be grateful to fate for his profession. After all, doing good is such an enormous pleasure that you almost feel like paying for this privilege...” “The Letters of a Young Physician” is the story of the young doctor Stark Monroe. In many ways, it is an autobiographical work, with almost all of its characters drawn from real prototypes. The doctor is only just getting ready to open his own practice, and he writes about relationships with his parents, meeting his future wife, his aspirations and plans. He also writes about his friend—the doctor James Kallingworth—whose schemes are relentless: one day he tries to change medical practice radically, and another time he comes up with incredible inventions. And in the novel “The Adventures of Mr. Westmacott,” Doyle tells the story of the restless Mrs. Westmacott—a convinced women’s rights campaigner—who disrupts the peace of a quiet town and changes the fate of most of the local residents.