The complete online text of The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac.

Had Balzac been a less masterful novelist, the disreputably profligate fraud in him might have overwhelmed his artistry. Still, the other Balzac, the artist, is tainted by his well-earned reputation for what has been called artistic license or dishonesty...

The French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) was the first writer to use fiction to convey the total social scene prevailing within one country at a particular period in its history. Commonly regarded as the founder of social realism, he also...

A worry that haunts many or even most foreign-bound travelers is the possibility of becoming seriously ill or suffering a bad accident while away. In an emergency, where do you find a doctor - especially in places where much of the medical care may...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 A Country Doctor This collection of stories was published in 1919, as was In the Penal Colony, which we will be discussing shortly. By the time he came to write these works, Kafka had matured enough artistically and intellectually to be...

In the following essay, Tobias examines the character of the doctor in “Ein Landarzt” in order to analyze his purpose of and the question of to whose sickbed is he called.

In the following essay, Brancato interprets Franz Kafka's "A Country Doctor" as a work concerned with the ultimate inadequacy of science.