*** start of the project gutenberg ebook 1350 *** the country doctor by honore de balzac translated by ellen marriage and clara bell for a wounded heart--shadow and silence. to my mother introduction in hardly any of his books, with the possible exception of _eugenie grandet_, does balzac seem to have taken a greater interest than in _le medecin de campagne_; and the fact of this interest, together with the merit and intensity of the bo...