The Best Medicine

Stories of Healing

Author  Theodore Dalrymple
The Best Medicine

An inspired anthology about physical and psychological illness, healing, and healers--featuring a brilliant array of classic and contemporary writers, from Anton Chekhov to Lorrie Moore.

This unique anthology gathers fictional tales of sickness and of healing, both physical and psychological, from a wide variety of times and perspectives. Some of these writers were themselves physicians, notably Anton Chekhov, Arthur Conan Doyle, Somerset Maugham, William Carlos Williams, and Mikhail Bulgakov. Bulgakov's story, taken from A Country Doctor's Notebook, draws on his early experience as a young doctor in rural Russia a century ago, while Anna Kavan's story, from her collection Asylum Piece, is based on her experience of mental illness. Guy de Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling, Joseph Conrad, Graham Greene,…

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March 9, 2021
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My Brilliant Career

My Brilliant Career

Miles Franklin and Sandra M Gilbert
Just So Stories

Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling
A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway
All Quiet on the Western Front

All Quiet on the Western Front

Erich Maria Remarque; Introduction by Sebastian Faulks
Clay Walls

Clay Walls

Kim Ronyoung; Introduction by David S. Cho
The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

The Penguin Book of Korean Short Stories

Translated and Edited with Notes by Bruce Fulton; Introduction by Kwon Youngmin
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland

Haruki Murakami; Translated by Jay Rubin
The Snow Ghost

The Snow Ghost

Various
Lolly Willowes

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Brothers Karamazov

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Translated with an Introduction and Notes by David McDuff; Illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson; Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Robert Mighall; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne; Edited by Melvyn New and Joan New; Preface by Christopher Ricks; Introduction and Notes by Melvyn New; Cover art by Coralie Bickford-Smith
White Nights

White Nights

Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Translated by Ronald Meyer; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Chess

Chess

Stefan Zweig; Translated by Anthea Bell; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith
Street Haunting

Street Haunting

Virginia Woolf; Cover illustrated by Coralie Bickford-Smith