Author: Russell Miller
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312378971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Using Doyle's personal papers, newly available in the British Library, this lively new biography of Sherlock Holmes' creator is the definitive work to date on this remarkable yet often misunderstood author. Photos throughout.
The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Russell Miller
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312378971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Using Doyle's personal papers, newly available in the British Library, this lively new biography of Sherlock Holmes' creator is the definitive work to date on this remarkable yet often misunderstood author. Photos throughout.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312378971
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
Using Doyle's personal papers, newly available in the British Library, this lively new biography of Sherlock Holmes' creator is the definitive work to date on this remarkable yet often misunderstood author. Photos throughout.
Memories and Adventures
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Teller of Tales
Author: Daniel Stashower
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466863153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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."
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466863153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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."
The Man Who Would Be Sherlock
Author: Christopher Sandford
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466892218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock. Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective. There can be few (if any) literary creations who have found such a consistent yet evolving independent life as Holmes. He is a paradigm that can be endlessly changed yet always maintains an underlying consistent identity, both drug addict and perfect example of the analytic mind, and as Christopher Sandford demonstrates so clearly, in many of these respects he mirrors his creator.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466892218
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A world-famous biographer reveals the strange relationship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's real life and that of Sherlock Holmes in the engrossing The Man Who Would Be Sherlock. Though best known for the fictional cases of his creation Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle was involved in dozens of real life cases, solving many, and zealously campaigning for justice in all. Stanford thoroughly and convincingly makes the case that the details of the many events Doyle was involved in, and caricatures of those involved, would provide Conan Doyle the fodder for many of the adventures of the violin-playing detective. There can be few (if any) literary creations who have found such a consistent yet evolving independent life as Holmes. He is a paradigm that can be endlessly changed yet always maintains an underlying consistent identity, both drug addict and perfect example of the analytic mind, and as Christopher Sandford demonstrates so clearly, in many of these respects he mirrors his creator.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486474917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Presents twelve of Holmes and Watson's best-known cases, including "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," The Five Orange Pips," "The Copper Beeches," and "A Scandal in Bohemia."
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486474917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Presents twelve of Holmes and Watson's best-known cases, including "The Speckled Band," "The Red-Headed League," The Five Orange Pips," "The Copper Beeches," and "A Scandal in Bohemia."
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Author: Arthur. Conan Doyle
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840225709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
An autobiography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that reveals his achievements from and apart from the field of literature.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840225709
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
An autobiography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that reveals his achievements from and apart from the field of literature.
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Presenting 12 tales starring the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes, this 1892 book is Arthur Conan Doyle's first short-story collection. The mystery compilation includes some of Holmes's finest cases with his dutiful sidekick, Doctor Watson, most notably "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Holmes matches wits with the crafty former lover of a European king. Also featured is "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League," a study in misdirection that unfolds to become a much larger scheme. The stories, initially published in the Strand Magazine, are essential reading for Holmes fans.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Presenting 12 tales starring the legendary British detective Sherlock Holmes, this 1892 book is Arthur Conan Doyle's first short-story collection. The mystery compilation includes some of Holmes's finest cases with his dutiful sidekick, Doctor Watson, most notably "A Scandal in Bohemia," in which Holmes matches wits with the crafty former lover of a European king. Also featured is "The Adventure of the Red-Headed League," a study in misdirection that unfolds to become a much larger scheme. The stories, initially published in the Strand Magazine, are essential reading for Holmes fans.
Our American Adventure
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Great Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141938536
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challening for the immortal detective's unique power of deduction.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141938536
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
From the strange case of 'The Red-Headed League' to the extraordinary tale of 'The Engineer's Thumb', Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challening for the immortal detective's unique power of deduction.