Surgeon's Daughter

"The Surgeon''s Daughter" is chiefly remarkable for its disregard of the unities of time and place. Though one of the shorter novels, its action extends through more than a quarter of a century, involving a great variety of characters and scenes widely remote, in all of which action the "Daughter" herself is little more than a lay figure.Dr. Gideon Gray, an estimable Scotch village surgeon, gives ...