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Author: Daniel Stashower Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1466863153 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 496
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review) This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Daniel Stashower's Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the legend of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years--the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world."
Author: Daniel Stashower Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1466863153 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 496
Book Description
Winner of the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Biographical Work, this is "an excellent biography of the man who created Sherlock Holmes" (David Walton, The New York Times Book Review) This fresh, compelling biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Daniel Stashower's Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the legend of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years--the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world."
Author: Jon L. Lellenberg Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
Many engage in the quest, but no biographer yet has captured the enigmatic Doyle. Conan Doyle deliberately obscured his life, and his heirs remain keen to guard his papers. Yet the contributors—Conan Doyle scholars and collectors, English literature professors, research librarians, editors, and critics—concur that better biographical material is needed and that now—100 years after the birth of Sherlock Holmes—is an appropriate time to examine the biographical problems. They concentrate on the ways Conan Doyle himself and his biographers have handled these problems—or failed to handle them. In the process of evaluating and criticizing earlier biographical efforts, the contributors present an effective portrait of Conan Doyle. All agree, however, that much more remains to be done, and they suggest fruitful areas for further research.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 0815412029 Category : Languages : en Pages : 538
Book Description
Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging interests and talents, and his literary output went far beyond his Holmes and Watson stories. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader collects works from all the genres in which he wrote, including mysteries, historical adventure tales, science fiction stories, ghost stories, plays, memoirs, essays on spiritualism (in which he was a dedicated believer) and reports on the Boer War and World War I. This collection features the account of Watson's first meeting with Holmes from A Study in Scarlet, an account of the dinosaurs inhabiting The Lost World, tales of Doyle's Napoleonic hero Brigadier Gerard, a condemnation of Belgium's exploitation of the Congo, and the complete text of his apocalyptic book The Poison Belt, in addition to several other stories and excerpts.
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486791173 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 500
Book Description
"In addition to the best of Sherlock Holmes, this anthology features selections from Conan Doyle's works of fantasy starring Professor Challenger. Contents include The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet plus three other stories from Baker Street as well as The Lost World and a trio of supernatural tales"--
Author: Martin Booth Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0312242514 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 385
Book Description
A biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man of Victorian times who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Publisher: FV Éditions ISBN: Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 200
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In 1916 Arthur Conan Doyle stated his belief in Spiritualism. "The Edge of the Unknown", first published in 1930, is a collection of articles covering various aspects of this subject.
Author: Daniel Stashower
Author: Daniel Stashower
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Author: Arthur Conan Doyle