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The Dop Doctor
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The novel centers on Richard Mildare, an Englishman living in the South African veld, who faces profound personal grief following the death of his partner and their stillborn child. The narrative examines his emotional state as he attempts to reconcile his sorrow while caring for their young child amidst the challenges of life in a remote, harsh environment. Set during a period marked by cultural upheaval and personal loss, the story reflects themes of mourning, responsibility, and resilience.
Written in the early 20th century, the novel portrays both the physical landscape of the South African frontier and the inner turmoil of its protagonist. Richard Dehan's work provides a realistic depiction of life on the veld, capturing the social and emotional struggles faced by individuals in colonial settings during this period. The story is grounded in contemporary concerns related to European settlement and personal tragedy set against a backdrop of colonial South Africa.
Written in the early 20th century, the novel portrays both the physical landscape of the South African frontier and the inner turmoil of its protagonist. Richard Dehan's work provides a realistic depiction of life on the veld, capturing the social and emotional struggles faced by individuals in colonial settings during this period. The story is grounded in contemporary concerns related to European settlement and personal tragedy set against a backdrop of colonial South Africa.
From the opening pages
New Impressions, May (three times), July, August, September, October, November, 1910; January, July, October, 1911; New Edition, May, 1912; New Impressions, September, October, December, 1912; February, May, 1913. Popular Edition, July, August, September, 1913; April, 1914; June, 1915; July, September, 1916; September, 1917; February, October, 1918; January, 1920; January, 1922; July, 1924; January, 1927; February, 1930; May, 1932; March, 1934, March 1936 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN THE WINDMILL PRESS, KINGSWOOD, SURREY TO ONE ACROSS THE SEA What have the long years brought me since first, with this pen for pickaxe, I bowed my loins to quarry from the living rock of my world about me, bread and a home where Love should smile beside the hearthplace, and chiefly for Love's dear sake, that men should honour you who, above all on earth, I hold most in honour—a name among the writers of books that live! What have the long years brought me! Well, not the things I hoped. Just bread and clothing, fire, and a little roof-tree; the purchased soil to make a grave, and a space of leisure, before that grave be needed, to write, myself, this book for me and for you. Hope has spread her iridescent Psyche-wings and left me; Ambition long ago shed hers to become a working-ant. Love never came to sit in the chair beside the ingle. An ocean heaves between us, only for nightly dreams and waking thoughts to span. Were those dear eyes to see me as I am to-day, I wonder whether they would know me? For I grow grey, and furrows deepen in the forehead the dear hand will never smooth again. Remember me, then, only as I used to be; my heart is the same always; in it the long, long years have wrought no change. But what have the long years brought me? Experience, that savoury salt, left where old tears have dried upon the shores of Time. Knowledge of my fellow men and women, of all sorts and conditions, and the love of them. Patience to bear what may yet have to be borne. Courage to encounter what may yet have to be encountered. Fortitude to meet the end, where faith holds up the Cross. Much have the long years brought me—besides your first smile and your last kiss. For your next, I look past Death, God aiding me, to the Eternal Life beyond.... South Wales ,…
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