Originally published in 1939, Miss Susie Slagle's spent half a year on the national best-seller lists, went through twenty-three hardcover printings, and became a major Hollywood motion picture produced by John Houseman. Now Augusta Tucker's beloved novel of Baltimore in the halcyon years before the Great War -- and of the Johns Hopkins medical students who boarded at Miss Susie Slagle's house on Biddle Street -- is reissued in the Maryland Paperback Bookshelf. Richly detailed and warmly nostalgic, Miss Susie Slagle's is about to charm a new generation of readers.
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New generations will enjoy discovering the Maryland Paperback Bookshelf reprint of this emotion-packed, best-selling novel about medical students at the famed Johns Hopkins Hospital before World War I and their years in Baltimore at the boarding house of the gentle Miss Susie Slagle.
(Maryland Magazine )Originally published in 1939, Augusta Tucker's beloved novel of turn-of-the century Baltimore spent half a year on the national best-seller lists and became a major Hollywood motion picture produced by John Houseman. Augusta Tucker writes of Baltimore like a traveler enchanted with a strange land.
(New York Herald-Tribune )
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What a wonderful surprise when one stumbles upon a gem of a book. Miss Susie Slagle's is a wonderfully told combination of school-boy story (Johns Hopkins Medical School), history of medicine--the history of early Johns Hopkins hospital is the history of modern medicine in America--and early 20th century romance. I recommend it for all who love seeing the past through the eyes of its participants, even if fictional.
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"That's the house, mister, and here's your grip!" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
accident room, white stone steps, house champion, assistant resident Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Susie, Alex Ashby, Ben Mead, Clay Abernathy, Pug Prentiss, Dean Wingate, Elbert Riggs, Uncle Emil, Isidore Aaron, Doctor Howe, Elijah Howe, George Prentiss, Silas Holmes, Lexington Market, New York, Little Elize, Christmas Eve, Mista Alex, Little Emil, Mary Alice, Aunt Alice, Eastern Shore, North Carolina, Principles of Medicine, Sally Howe New!
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"That's the house, mister, and here's your grip!" Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
accident room, white stone steps, house champion, assistant resident Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Miss Susie, Alex Ashby, Ben Mead, Clay Abernathy, Pug Prentiss, Dean Wingate, Elbert Riggs, Uncle Emil, Isidore Aaron, Doctor Howe, Elijah Howe, George Prentiss, Silas Holmes, Lexington Market, New York, Little Elize, Christmas Eve, Mista Alex, Little Emil, Mary Alice, Aunt Alice, Eastern Shore, North Carolina, Principles of Medicine, Sally Howe New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Religio Medici by Browne on page 31, and page 64
- The Man Miss Susie Loved by Augusta Tucker in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Three Lives (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Gertrude Stein in Front Matter
- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger in Front Matter
- The Amiable Baltimoreans (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by Francis F. Beirne in Front Matter
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- Doctors in the Movies: Boil the Water and Just Say Aah by Peter E. Dans on page 5, page 234, and Back Matter
- Tender Comrades: A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist by Patrick McGilligan on page 162, and page 256
- Watermen (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by Randall S. Peffer in Front Matter
- Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by H. L. Mencken in Back Matter
- Maryland, A Middle Temperament: 1634-1980 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf) by Robert J. Brugger in Front Matter
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