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Story of Robert Shannon's experiences as a medical research worker and his love affair with a girl of a different religious faith.Tags
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I _love_ this book. I have never read anything by Cronin before, but I will certainly read more.
Shannon's Way is a quiet, complex, simple book of understated beauty and wisdom in the ways of we fallible humans. Everyone who wishes to write excellent prose in English would benefit from reading and studying this book. (Poets would benefit, too.) But more, it is a wonderful read. Real people, real places, situations reflecting real lives. Excellent!
Shannon's Way is a quiet, complex, simple book of understated beauty and wisdom in the ways of we fallible humans. Everyone who wishes to write excellent prose in English would benefit from reading and studying this book. (Poets would benefit, too.) But more, it is a wonderful read. Real people, real places, situations reflecting real lives. Excellent!
When Dr. Robert Shannon completed medical school he never wanted to be a doctor. Instead he wanted to concentrate on pathological research, especially after identifying a new link between two diseases. His stubborn personality make it hard for him to keep a job while he is trying to complete his research, and the woman he is in love with is not allowed to marry him due to religious differences.
I usually really like Cronin's books, but this one was my least favorite because the main character isn't likeable. He brings all of the bad things in his life on himself, and he doesn't learn from his mistakes. In addition, the ending just tied everything up far too neatly.
I usually really like Cronin's books, but this one was my least favorite because the main character isn't likeable. He brings all of the bad things in his life on himself, and he doesn't learn from his mistakes. In addition, the ending just tied everything up far too neatly.
Set in 1920s Scotland Shannon's Way is a rather charming glimpse into medicine in a time past.
Experimental bacteriologist Dr Robert Shannon is investigating a strange disease effecting people, and also questioning why it seems to follow cows being sick. However he's doing it on his work time, at the expense of work he's meant to be doing which results in him being fired from his fellowship at the university.
Undeterred he seeks employment which will enable him to continue said research on his own time, whilst also drawing the attention of some young ladies.
A quaint and interesting read.
Experimental bacteriologist Dr Robert Shannon is investigating a strange disease effecting people, and also questioning why it seems to follow cows being sick. However he's doing it on his work time, at the expense of work he's meant to be doing which results in him being fired from his fellowship at the university.
Undeterred he seeks employment which will enable him to continue said research on his own time, whilst also drawing the attention of some young ladies.
A quaint and interesting read.
I read this in a single night when I was sixteen (and then had to go to school the following day). The tale of a young scientist struggling to crack a difficult problem and the school teacher who loves him is perhaps a little dated but I enjoyed it. I was devastated when Robert Shannon finally made his breakthrough only to be beaten to publication by someone else; it has a happy ending but not the one that I'd been expecting. Another one that's long overdue for a re-read.
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A.J. (Archibald Joseph) Cronin was born in Cardross, Scotland on July 19, 1896. He was educated at the University of Glasgow Medical School and served as a surgeon in the Royal Navy during World War I. After the war, he investigated occupational diseases in the coal industry and worked as a general practitioner in Wales and London. His first show more novel, Hatter's Castle, written in 1931, was an immediate success, and Cronin gave up the practice of medicine to become a full-time author. Hatter's Castle was adapted into a film in 1941. His other works include Shannon's Way, The Judas Tree, A Song of Sixpence, and A Thing of Beauty. He drew on his medical background in writing his books, and his most popular character was Doctor Finlay, which provided the background for the television series, Doctor Finlay's Casebook. Many of his books were made into films including The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom, and The Green Years. He died on January 6, 1981. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Shannon's Way
- Original title
- Shannon's way
- Alternate titles*
- Dr. Shannons Weg
- Original publication date
- 1948
- People/Characters
- Robert Shannon
- Related movies
- The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon (1962 | IMDb); The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon (1963 | IMDb)
- First words
- On a damp evening in December, the fifth of that month, in the year 1919--a date which marked the beginning of a great change in my life--six o'clock had struck from the University tower and the soft mist from the Eldon River... (show all) was creeping round the Experimental pathology buildings at the foot of Fenner Hill, invading our long work-room that smelled faintly of formalin, and was lit only by low, green-shaded lamps.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Yes, in the mystical warmth of that moment everything became possible, there was no thought of failure, and happiness seemed eternal.
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