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The Doctor's Christmas Eve by James Lane Allen is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Doctor's Christmas Eve about?

Extract:"The morning of the twenty-fourth of December a quarter of a century ago opened upon the vast plateau of central Kentucky as a brilliant but bitter day—with a wind like the gales of March. Out in a neighborhood of one of the wealthiest and most thickly settled counties, toward the middle of the forenoon, two stumpy figures with movements full of health and glee appeared on a hilltop of the treeless . . ."A middle aged country doctor takes a memory trip down the lane where his personal and professional lives were forever intertwined with each other.James Lane Allen (1849–1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."

Who reads The Doctor's Christmas Eve?

Author

James Lane Allen

Publisher

null

Published

2013

Language

EN

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Classics