Cronin has 82 books on Goodreads with 29362 ratings. Cronin’s most popular book is The Citadel. Alternative Title: Archibald Joseph Cronin A.J. Cronin, in full Archibald Joseph Cronin, (born July 19, 1896, Cardross,, Scot.—died Jan. 6, 1981,, Switz.), Scottish novelist and physician whose works combining realism with social won a large Anglo-American readership. Cronin was educated at the and served as a surgeon in the during. He practiced in South Wales (1921–24) and then, as medical inspector of mines, investigated occupational diseases in the coal industry. He opened in in 1926 but quit because of ill health, using his leisure to write his first, Hatter’s Castle (1931; filmed 1941), the story of a Scottish hatmaker obsessed with the idea of the possibility of his noble birth. This book was an immediate success in. Cronin’s fourth novel, The Stars Look Down (1935; filmed 1939), which chronicles various social injustices in a North from 1903 to 1933, gained him an international readership. It was followed by The Citadel (1937; filmed 1938), which showed how private physicians’ greed can distort good medical practice. The Keys of the Kingdom (1942; filmed 1944), about a Roman Catholic missionary in China, was one of his most popular books. ![]() Cronin’s subsequent novels include The Green Years (1944; filmed 1946), Shannon’s Way (1948), The Judas Tree (1961), and A Song of Sixpence (1964). One of his more interesting late works is A Thing of Beauty (1956), a study of a gifted young painter who must break free of middle-class conventions to realize his potential. Cronin’s strengths were his narrative skill and his powers of observation and graphic description. Though labeled a successful middlebrow novelist, he managed to create in The Stars Look Down a classic work of 20th-century British fiction. ![]() Books are available one month prior to the discussion. You may pick up books at the previous meeting, or you may get them at the Main Desk any time the Library is open. Please bring your library card to the meeting to check books out. All books announced are tentative, based on availability of multiple copies. To confirm dates, book selections, or for more information call the Library. The Citadel by In 1921 a newly minted physician, Andrew Manson, arrives in a tiny Welsh mining town to begin practicing medicine. This novel follows his rise to London’s Harley Street where money and prestige have become his guiding principles.
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