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The novel is a dark tale of destructive ambition, class discrimination, domestic violence and Victorian repression, inspired by Dickens' style but with Cronin's social realism. A 1942 film adaptation starring Robert Newton.
This is a biography about my father made up of memories and mere imagination. History does not exist, and neither do facts. The past is unknown.
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Cronin's moving story of redemption. Robert Shannon, a fanatical doctor-researcher, sacrifices love and life for science, but in the end loses everything – his girlfriend, recognition, health – only to realize through suffering: medicine without humanity