The Citadel
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
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Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the grimy coal-mining valleys of Wales and the glittering consulting rooms of London, a young Scottish doctor wages a war against his own conscience. The Citadel chronicles the rise and moral corruption of Andrew Manson, an idealistic physician who arrives in a Welsh mining town burning with ambition and a fierce dedication to honest medicine, only to find himself seduced by wealth, social prestige, and the hollow rewards of a fashionable London practice. A. J. Cronin draws on his own experiences as a medical professional to construct a searing indictment of the British medical establishment, portraying with unflinching clarity how institutional greed and personal vanity can erode a man's most deeply held principles. Cronin's prose is muscular and direct, carrying the reader through Andrew's journey with an urgency that never relents, and his vivid characterisations — from the stoic mining communities of Drineffy to the pampered hypochondriacs of Mayfair — paint a panoramic portrait of interwar British society. Published in 1937, the novel caused a sensation and is widely credited as a key influence on the political will that created Britain's National Health Service. Thematically rich and morally complex, it stands as one of the great social novels of the twentieth century — and the question it poses, of whether integrity can survive ambition, remains as urgent today as ever.
Author: A. J. Cronin
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Tanning and foxing
In the grimy coal-mining valleys of Wales and the glittering consulting rooms of London, a young Scottish doctor wages a war against his own conscience. The Citadel chronicles the rise and moral corruption of Andrew Manson, an idealistic physician who arrives in a Welsh mining town burning with ambition and a fierce dedication to honest medicine, only to find himself seduced by wealth, social prestige, and the hollow rewards of a fashionable London practice. A. J. Cronin draws on his own experiences as a medical professional to construct a searing indictment of the British medical establishment, portraying with unflinching clarity how institutional greed and personal vanity can erode a man's most deeply held principles. Cronin's prose is muscular and direct, carrying the reader through Andrew's journey with an urgency that never relents, and his vivid characterisations — from the stoic mining communities of Drineffy to the pampered hypochondriacs of Mayfair — paint a panoramic portrait of interwar British society. Published in 1937, the novel caused a sensation and is widely credited as a key influence on the political will that created Britain's National Health Service. Thematically rich and morally complex, it stands as one of the great social novels of the twentieth century — and the question it poses, of whether integrity can survive ambition, remains as urgent today as ever.