Project Gutenberg 2005-04-24 Public domain in the USA. 224 Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins 1852 1930 Wilkins, Mary E. (Mary Eleanor) Freeman, Mary E. Wilkins (Mary Eleanor Wilkins) Wilkins, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, Mary Ella Merrill, Frank T. 1848 1923 Merrill, F. T. Merrill, Frank Thayer 'Doc.' Gordon Reading ease score: 83.9 (6th grade). Easy to read. Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Josephine Paolucci, Joshua Hutchinson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "Doc. Gordon" by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers around James Elliot, a young medical graduate, who embarks on a journey to become an assistant to the local physician in Alton, Doctor Thomas Gordon. The narrative introduces themes of ambition, youthful exuberance, and the complexities of human relationships, especially through the lens of James's interactions with the enigmatic figures in his new environment. The opening of the novel follows James as he walks to Alton, filled with optimism and excitement about starting his medical career. Along the way, he encounters various characters, including a workingman and a young woman named Clemency, who elicits both intrigue and protectiveness from him. As he arrives in Alton and meets Doctor Gordon, a mix of joviality and melancholy pervades their conversations, hinting at deeper issues surrounding the doctor’s family, particularly his sister, Mrs. Ewing, whose health appears to be a source of concern. James quickly becomes entangled in the complex dynamics of the Gordon household, characterized by secrets and unspoken struggles, particularly regarding Mrs. Ewing's mysterious ailment and Clemency's own predicament of being sheltered from the outside world. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Detective and mystery stories New Jersey -- Fiction PS Text Browsing: Crime/Mystery Browsing: Fiction 455127 455128 2024-10-07T06:52:57.068291 2023-09-07T08:14:34.137773 text/html text/html 463295 2020-12-14T10:55:38 text/html; charset=utf-8 937431 2020-12-14T10:55:38 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1007568 2024-10-07T06:53:06.074251 application/epub+zip 1013805 2024-10-07T06:52:59.803284 application/epub+zip 225970 2024-10-07T06:52:58.008266 application/epub+zip 788629 2024-10-07T06:53:10.223198 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 761458 2024-10-07T06:53:04.768266 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 319874 2022-09-07T23:12:51.433653 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 375844 375738 2024-10-07T06:52:55.930290 2023-09-07T08:14:33.143788 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 375673 2020-12-14T10:55:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 138774 2020-12-14T10:55:38 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 375665 2020-12-14T10:55:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 138738 2020-12-14T10:55:38 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22575 2024-10-07T06:53:10.374196 application/rdf+xml 10152 2024-10-07T06:52:58.572259 image/jpeg 2776 2024-10-07T06:52:58.293252 image/jpeg 995482 2024-10-07T06:52:57.122279 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia