Project Gutenberg 2004-09-01 Public domain in the USA. 133 Scott, Walter 1771 1832 Scott, Sir Walter Malagrowther, Malachi Cleishbotham, Jedediah Templeton, Laurence The Surgeon's Daughter Reading ease score: 62.2 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Text file produced by D Garcia, David Moynihan, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger "The Surgeon's Daughter" by Sir Walter Scott is a novel written in the early 19th century that explores themes of love, duty, and the complexities of social class. The story centers around Dr. Gideon Gray, a devoted and compassionate village surgeon in Scotland, and the unfolding drama relating to a young woman named Zilia de Moncada, who is caught in a web of familial and romantic turmoil stemming from her concealed identity and circumstances. At the start of the narrative, we are introduced to Dr. Gray as he navigates his responsibilities and the challenges of his profession in a rural Scottish community. A mysterious event occurs when a lady of unknown background, later revealed to be Zilia, arrives at his door seeking assistance during a critical moment in her life. Complications arise as Dr. Gray learns of Zilia's father, Matthias de Moncada, and the implications of her status. The opening sets the stage for a dramatic interplay of societal expectations and personal choices, as Dr. Gray tries to protect Zilia and her child against threats from her father and the societal norms of the time. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en India -- Fiction Scots -- India -- Fiction PR Text Historical Fiction Browsing: History - General Browsing: Literature Browsing: Fiction 477439 477440 2024-10-03T09:12:52.482682 2023-10-03T08:25:01.408033 text/html text/html 489265 2021-01-27T02:45:07 text/html; charset=utf-8 167930 2021-01-27T02:45:07 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 242458 2024-10-03T09:13:00.732640 application/epub+zip 251208 2024-10-03T09:12:55.639654 application/epub+zip 235990 2024-10-03T09:12:54.336700 application/epub+zip 441277 2024-10-03T09:13:04.836608 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 413701 2024-10-03T09:12:59.951671 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 371441 2022-09-03T11:50:10.356502 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 414803 414650 2024-10-03T09:12:51.668681 2023-10-03T08:25:00.836048 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 418544 2018-02-27T09:26:10 text/plain; charset=utf-8 160421 2018-03-20T06:52:54 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 414518 2013-07-03T15:45:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 160000 2013-07-03T15:45:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22008 2024-10-03T09:13:04.964606 application/rdf+xml 13696 2024-10-03T09:12:54.907656 image/jpeg 3809 2024-10-03T09:12:54.620653 image/jpeg 235795 2024-10-03T09:12:52.523687 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