Washington Square

By James, Henry

Book Id: WPLBN0000628277
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 0.7 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Washington Square
Author:	James, Henry
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


Citation APA MLA Chicago James, B. H. (n.d.). Washington Square. Retrieved from https://www.gutenberg.us/

Description
Excerpt: It was an element in Doctor Sloper?s reputation that his learning and his skill were very evenly balanced; he was what you might call a scholarly doctor, and yet there was nothing abstract in his remedies? he always ordered you to take something. Though he was felt to be extremely thorough, he was not uncomfortably theoretic; and if he sometimes explained matters rather more minutely than might seem of use to the patient, he never went so far (like some practitioners one had heard of) as to trust to the explanation alone, but always left behind him an inscrutable prescription. There were some doctors that left the prescription without offering any explanation at all; and he did not belong to that class either, which was after all the most vulgar. It will be seen that I am describing a clever man; and this is really the reason why Doctor Sloper had become a local celebrity.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: Was it Heaven? Or Hell?, 1 -- Mark Twain, 1 -- Chapter I, 1 -- Chapter II, 1 -- Chapter III, 3 -- Chapter IV, 8 -- Chapter V, 10 -- Chapter VI, 12 -- Chapter VII, 12 -- Chapter VIII, 13 -- Chapter IX, 14 -- Chapter X, 15