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Martin Arrowsmith, a young doctor from the Midwest drawn to pure research by a stern German bacteriologist, tries to keep faith with science through medical school, country practice, public health and fame.
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Main Street
Carol Milford, a young, idealistic librarian from St Paul, marries a small-town doctor and moves to Gopher Prairie, Minnesota, determined to bring culture and reform to its one dusty Main Street.
Dodsworth
Sam Dodsworth, a newly retired Midwestern car manufacturer, sets off on a long tour of Europe with his restless wife Fran, who is determined to find the life she thinks she has missed.
Ship Fever
Stories of scientists and the people around them, from Linnaeus and Mendel to a young doctor on a quarantine island in Quebec as the Irish famine ships arrive in 1847.
The Echo Maker
After a truck crash on a Nebraska road, a young man wakes believing his sister is an impostor, and a famous neurologist arrives as sandhill cranes gather on the Platte River.
Wellness
Jack and Elizabeth met as young artists in 1990s Chicago, and twenty years later, married with a young son and buying a condo in the suburbs, they find their marriage and the theories they live by quietly cracking.
The Cider House Rules
An orphanage obstetrician in wartime Maine who also quietly performs abortions raises a favourite boy into the doctor who will eventually have to decide what the cider-house rules were for.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth
In a Nigeria lightly fictionalised, a surgeon and his oldest friend, an engineer about to take up a post at the United Nations, discover that someone is trafficking in body parts from the hospital.
Freedom
A liberal Minnesota couple and the rock-musician friend who comes between them spend three decades disappointing each other in Bush-era America.
The Home and the World
During the Swadeshi movement in Bengal, Bimala, the wife of a liberal landowner, steps out of the women's quarters and falls under the spell of his charismatic friend Sandip, a nationalist leader.
The Magnificent Ambersons
In a Midwestern town turning into a city at the turn of the century, George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled heir of its richest family, waits for his comeuppance.
The Nix
A satirical family epic spanning from the 1968 Chicago riots to the present, connecting a mother's secret past to her son's public disgrace.
Doctor Glas
A lonely Stockholm doctor's diary records his fascination with a young patient and his loathing for her clergyman husband, and his slow reasoning towards whether he should kill him.