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Heart and Science

Wilkie Collins's later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytelling--but as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. Of none is this more... Read Full Overview

This book is one of the classic book of all time.

Heart and Science is a classic medical fiction/medical ethics text by Wilklie Collins and is a venerable anti-vivisection novel.

"Heart and Science" from Wilkie Collins. English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories (1824-1889).

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This thought-provoking novel explores the tension between scientific progress and morality in Victorian society. When a young woman becomes the subject of a medical experiment, she faces both physical and emotional challenges. A gripping tale from one of the greats of English... Read Full Overview

"Heart and Science" through Wilkie Collins is a gripping novel that delves into the moral and ethical dilemmas bobbing up from medical improvements and the pursuit of know-how. First posted in 1883, Collins weaves a story that explores the consequences of playing with the forces... Read Full Overview

Explore the complex intersection of medicine and morality in Wilkie Collins's "Heart and Science," a compelling novel delving into medical ethics during a time of rapid scientific advancement. This thought-provoking story examines the doctor's role in society and raises timeless... Read Full Overview

Explore the complex intersection of medicine and morality in Wilkie Collins's "Heart and Science," a compelling novel delving into medical ethics during a time of rapid scientific advancement. This thought-provoking story examines the doctor's role in society and raises timeless... Read Full Overview

You are the children of Old Mother England on both sides of the Atlantic; you form the majority of buyers and borrowers of novels; and you judge of works of fiction by certain inbred preferences which but slightly influence the other great public of readers on the continent of... Read Full Overview

Collins' novel takes a sharp look at the moral dilemma of sacrificing one's heart for the sake of scientific progress in Victorian England.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we... Read Full Overview

This thought-provoking novel explores the tension between scientific progress and morality in Victorian society. When a young woman becomes the subject of a medical experiment, she faces both physical and emotional challenges. A gripping tale from one of the greats of English... Read Full Overview

William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 - 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English... Read Full Overview

Collins' novel takes a sharp look at the moral dilemma of sacrificing one's heart for the sake of scientific progress in Victorian England.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we... Read Full Overview

You are the children of Old Mother England, on both sides of the Atlantic; you form the majority of buyers and borrowers of novels; and you judge of works of fiction by certain inbred preferences, which but slightly influence the other great public of readers on the continent... Read Full Overview

Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fianc is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his health. Over the issue of her inheritance... Read Full Overview