A novel, 1883

Heart and Science

Wilkie Collins

Ovid Vere, a young doctor exhausted by overwork, falls in love with Carmina Graywell, his mother’s orphaned niece and ward.

63 chapters · about 8 hours

How it begins

The weary old nineteenth century had advanced into the last twenty years of its life. Towards two o’clock in the afternoon, Ovid Vere (of the Royal College of Surgeons) stood at the window of his consulting-room in London, looking out at the summer sunshine, and the quiet dusty street.

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About the book

Length

63 chapters

First published

1883

Text from Project Gutenberg.