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The Stark Munro Letters — EPUB + Audiobook
The Stark Munro Letters — EPUB + Audiobook
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Before Sherlock Holmes made him famous, Arthur Conan Doyle drew on his own struggles as a young doctor for this unusually personal novel.
Told through sixteen letters written by the newly qualified physician J. Stark Munro, the book follows an idealistic young man as he tries to establish a medical practice, faces poverty and professional rivalry, and wrestles with faith, ambition, friendship, and love. At the center of his story is the brilliant, forceful, and dangerously erratic James Cullingworth.
The Stark Munro Letters is among Doyle’s most revealing works: a semi-autobiographical portrait of the years before literary success, written with the narrative drive of fiction and the candor of private correspondence.
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Home, 30th March, 1881
I have missed you very much since your return to America, my dear Bertie, for you are the one man upon this earth to whom I have ever been able to unreservedly open my whole mind. I don’t know why it is; for, now that I come to think of it, I have never enjoyed very much of your confidence in return. But that may be my fault. Perhaps you don’t find me sympathetic, even though I have every wish to be.
Can you remember Cullingworth at the University? You never were in the athletic set, and so it is possible that you don’t. Anyway, I’ll take it for granted that you don’t, and explain it all from the beginning. I’m sure that you would know his photograph, however, for the reason that he was the ugliest and queerest-looking man of our year.
Physically he was a fine athlete—one of the fastest and most determined Rugby forwards that I have ever known, though he played so savage a game that he was never given his international cap. He was well-grown, with square shoulders, an arching chest, and a quick jerky way of walking. His face was wonderfully ugly, but it was the ugliness of character, which is as attractive as beauty.
Public-domain notice: This work and the LibriVox recording are public domain in the United States. Readers elsewhere should check local copyright rules.
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