The Doctor's Christmas Eve: A Moving Saga of A Man's Journey Through His Life

by James Lane Allen

This carefully crafted "The Doctor's Christmas Eve (Holiday Classics Series)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents."The morning of the twenty-fourth of December a quarter of a century ago opened upon the vast plateau of central Kentucky as a brilliant but bitter day—with a wind like the gales of March. Out in a neighborhood of one of the wealthiest and most thickly settled counties, toward the middle of the forenoon, two stumpy figures with movements full of health and glee appeared on a hilltop of the treeless . . ."A middle aged country doctor takes a memory trip down the lane where his personal and professional lives were forever intertwined with each other.James Lane Allen (1849–1925) was an American novelist and short story writer whose work, including the novel A Kentucky Cardinal, often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."

Genres: Holiday

104 pages, Paperback

Published August 29, 2021

About the author

James Lane Allen was an American novelist and short story writer whose work often depicted the culture and dialects of his native Kentucky. His work is characteristic of the late-19th century local color era, when writers sought to capture the vernacular in their fiction. Allen has been described as "Kentucky's first important novelist."

Reviews

[Kim]

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[Rob Smith, Jr.]

Seems the writer was torn as to write a novel or a treatise. The latter would've been better. His storytelling stinks. I love philosophy, but not a bit of fiction of 15 pages drenched in another hundred reflecting on life.

I do like the views and how those are written. A separate book of just this I would rave of. However, this is to be fiction...depressing Christmas-wise, and it doesn't work and the story is not worth clawing through the views to get to the end.

Bottom line: I don't recommend this book. 3 out of ten points.

[Susan Molloy]

A Drawn-Out House Call.

🖊While generally interesting, I found this to be 🌵 ⊱Quite dry reading that made this draggy.

📕Published in 1910.

જ⁀🟢 E-book version on Project Gutenburg.
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[Dave]

Verbose, almost to the point of boredom-inducing. Interesting philosophy, but it all but ruins what I would consider a traditional Christmas story.