{"product_id":"the-stark-munro-letters-arthur-conan-doyle","title":"The Stark Munro Letters — EPUB + Audiobook","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore Sherlock Holmes made him famous, Arthur Conan Doyle drew on his own struggles as a young doctor for this unusually personal novel.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTold 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Stark Munro Letters\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis digital bundle includes:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eA complete, clean \u003cstrong\u003ereflowable EPUB\u003c\/strong\u003e with adjustable type and navigable contents\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eThe complete \u003cstrong\u003eLibriVox MP3 audiobook\u003c\/strong\u003e (approximately 6 hours 50 minutes)\u003c\/li\u003e\n  \u003cli\u003eInstant digital delivery; no physical item will be shipped\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width:760px;margin:1.5rem auto;text-align:center;\"\u003e\n  \u003ch3\u003eListen to an audio sample\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003caudio controls preload=\"metadata\" style=\"width:100%;max-width:560px;\" src=\"https:\/\/nile-bookstore-previews.bannaga.workers.dev\/audio\/stark-munro-letters.mp3\"\u003eYour browser does not support the audio player.\u003c\/audio\u003e\n  \u003cp style=\"font-size:.9em;opacity:.8;\"\u003eFour-minute sample from the first letter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"nile-preview\" style=\"max-width:760px;margin:0 auto;line-height:1.75;font-size:1.05em;\"\u003e\n  \u003ch3 style=\"text-align:center;\"\u003eRead an excerpt\u003c\/h3\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome, 30th March, 1881\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eI 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003eCan 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  \u003cp\u003ePhysically 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublic-domain notice:\u003c\/strong\u003e This work and the LibriVox recording are public domain in the United States. Readers elsewhere should check local copyright rules.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\r\n","brand":"Nile Book Store","offers":[{"title":"Digital bundle","offer_id":50242671214840,"sku":"EN-290-STARKMUNRO","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0802\/4798\/0280\/files\/the-stark-munro-letters-arthur-conan-doyle-cover.png?v=1787781170","url":"https:\/\/nilebookstore.com\/products\/the-stark-munro-letters-arthur-conan-doyle","provider":"Nile Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}