Details

Title

Doctor Luke of the Labrador

Author

Duncan, Norman

Publication Date

1904

Publisher

Fleming H. Revell Company

Place of Publication

New York

Collection

L.M. Montgomery Institute.

Note

In a 1924 article called “Symposium on Canadian Fiction in Which Canadian Authors Express Their Preferences,” Montgomery and a variety of other authors—including Isabel Ecclestone Mackay, Bliss Carman, William Arthur Deacon, and Nellie McClung—were asked to name their “Three Favorite Novels by Canadian Writers.” Montgomery confessed that she would love to list Frederick Philip Grove’s “Over the Prairie Trails” in her answer, but it is a collection of nonfiction. But she followed the instructions and chose three titles: Roberts’ “Heart of the Ancient Wood,” Duncan’s “Doctor Luke of the Labrador,” and MacMurchy’s “The Child’s House.” She says she loves “this book for the simple, heroic lives it depicts, for its gracious humor, for its breath of salt sea and hungry waves, and because it, too, [like Roberts’ “Heart of the Ancient Wood”] brings back to me a life and period forever passed away not only from me, but from the world” (see “The L.M. Montgomery Reader Volume One: A Life in Print, ed. Lefebvre, pp. 207–8). Read the full text of the story, and see many of the illustrations here.

Genre

novel

Type of Item

contemporaneous