{"_id":"62c92d6f5eee901019b6d6fe","title":"The Black Veil","author":"Charles Dickens","code":"the-black-veil","words":4412,"image":"anguish.jpg","image_alt":"An expressionless woman clutching her face","publish_year":1836,"publish_source":"Sketches by Boz","publish_edition":"Vol. 2","publish_scan":"https://archive.org/details/dickenssketchesbyboz1ser02/page/76/mode/2up","genres":["gothic","tragedy"],"blurb":"There was a desperate earnestness in this woman’s manner, that went to the young man’s heart. He was young in his profession, and had not yet witnessed enough of the miseries which are daily presented before the eyes of its members, to have grown comparatively callous to human suffering.","description":"A distressed woman in a black veil begs a surgeon to come to her house and help someone near death.","has_review":false,"has_collections":false}