by Archibald Joseph Cronin · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401100024
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«La ciudadela» is the novel by Scottish writer A. J. Cronin, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (447 pages, in Spanish).
Andrew Manson is a young doctor trying to maintain his integrity in a healthcare system dominated by money and malpractice. The story takes place in Wales and London in the 1920s and addresses medical ethics, ambition, and social injustice, offering a critique of British society of the time.
The novel was published in 1937; the present edition is from 1978.
For readers of classic fiction interested in social dramas and ethical dilemmas in the medical field.
Archibald Joseph Cronin (Cronogue) (19 July 1896 – 6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known novel is The Citadel (1937), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a physician in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicine and helped to inspire the National Health Service.
