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This thrilling novel of a doctor's life has been the subject of a Mobil Masterpiece Theatre dramatic series on PBS. "Cronin's distinguished achievement. . . . No one could have written as fine, honest, and moving a study of a young doctor as "The Citadel" without possessing great literary... read more

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LATE one October afternoon in the year 1921, a shabby young man gazed with fixed intensity through the widow of a third-class compartment in the almost empty train labouring up the Penowell valley from Swansea.

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  1. Archibald Joseph Cronin (Author)
 

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