Hinter diesen mauern a&j cronin biography

Every so often, this Scottish author invades my awareness. I first read an A. J. Cronin book about an ethically constrained medical doctor (The Citadel) and about a troubled priest (Keys of the Kingdom) back when I was in junior high school.

Those were the only two titles my little branch library had by that author, but I was rewarded later in life when I discovered a copy of Shannon’s Way , a novel about a physician researcher and a forbidden love who becomes deathly ill.

Hinter diesen mauern a to z

I thought I was reading a rehash of Sinclair Lewis’ Arrowsmith for a few pages, but I assure you that it isn’t the same.

When I started reading Beyond This Place, originally published as a serial in Collier’s magazine entitled To Live Again, I thought I was being set up for a rather ordinary, perhaps predictable mystery.

When the protagonist, Paul Mathry, discovers that his father is not deceased but incarcerated, he makes an impulsive move to visit his father in