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New generations will enjoy discovering the Maryland Paperback Bookshelf reprint of this emotion-packed, best-selling novel about medical students at the famed Johns Hopkins Hospital before World War I and their years in Baltimore at the boarding house of the gentle Miss Susie Slagle.
Originally published in 1939, Augusta Tucker's beloved novel of turn-of-the century Baltimore spent half a year on the national best-seller lists and became a major Hollywood motion picture produced by John Houseman. Augusta Tucker writes of Baltimore like a traveler enchanted with a strange land.
Book Details
Prologue
I. Supper at Miss Susie Slagle's
II. Famous Men were Once Students
III. A Fine Acquaintance
IV. A Baltimore Christmas Eve
V. First Year Medicine
VI. Son of a Famous Man
VII. Easter at Miss Susie
Prologue
I. Supper at Miss Susie Slagle's
II. Famous Men were Once Students
III. A Fine Acquaintance
IV. A Baltimore Christmas Eve
V. First Year Medicine
VI. Son of a Famous Man
VII. Easter at Miss Susie Slagle's
VIII. First Hospital Work
IX. Forsaking All Others
X. Herald Angels Sing
XI. Life is Fine
XII. And so is Death
XIII. Out of Death Comes Life
XIV. Experiences of the Free Quarter
XV. A Young Man's Fancy
XVI. Those Hidden Centers of Real Life
XVII. Fencing with Death
XVIII. The Summer of 1914
XIX. Loved I Not Honor More
XX. Not For a Year at Least
XXI. They've Posted the List
XXII. The lAst Year
XXIV. The Little Elize Bed