The Citadel

Name: The Citadel
Author: A. J. Cronin

by A. J. Cronin

Novel of a Scottish doctor's idealism tested by poverty and corruption

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A. J. Cronin

Cronin was a Scottish novelist and doctor whose novels combining medical setting with social conscience achieved enormous popular success. The Citadel and The Stars Look Down are important documents of class and medicine in the interwar period.

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