Teller of Tales

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Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466863153
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Book Synopsis Teller of Tales by : Daniel Stashower

Download or read book Teller of Tales written by Daniel Stashower and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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."

Conan Doyle for the Defense

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Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0399589473
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Conan Doyle for the Defense by : Margalit Fox

Download or read book Conan Doyle for the Defense written by Margalit Fox and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A wonderfully vivid portrait of the man behind Sherlock Holmes . . . Like all the best historical true crime books, it’s about so much more than crime.”—Tana French, author of In the Woods A sensational Edwardian murder. A scandalous wrongful conviction. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the rescue—a true story. After a wealthy woman was brutally murdered in her Glasgow home in 1908, the police found a convenient suspect in Oscar Slater, an immigrant Jewish cardsharp. Though he was known to be innocent, Slater was tried, convicted, and consigned to life at hard labor. Outraged by this injustice, Arthur Conan Doyle, already world renowned as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, used the methods of his most famous character to reinvestigate the case, ultimately winning Slater’s freedom. With “an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research” (The Wall Street Journal), Margalit Fox immerses readers in the science of Edwardian crime detection and illuminates a watershed moment in its history, when reflexive prejudice began to be replaced by reason and the scientific method. Praise for Conan Doyle for the Defense “Artful and compelling . . . [Fox’s] narrative momentum never flags. . . . Conan Doyle for the Defense will captivate almost any reader while being pure catnip for the devotee of true-crime writing.”—The Washington Post “Developed with brio . . . [Fox] is excellent in linking the 19th-century creation of policing and detection with the development of both detective fiction and the science of forensics—ballistics, fingerprints, toxicology and serology—as well as the quasi science of ‘criminal anthropology.’”—The New York Times Book Review “[Fox] has an eye for the telling detail, a forensic sense of evidence and a relish for research.”—The Wall Street Journal “Gripping . . . The book works on two levels, much like a good Holmes case. First, it is a fluid story of a crime. . . . Second, and more pertinently, it is a deeper story of how prejudice against a class of people, the covering up of sloppy police work and a poisonous political atmosphere can doom an innocent. We should all heed Holmes’s salutary lesson: rationally follow the facts to find the truth.”—Time

On Conan Doyle

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691151350
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book On Conan Doyle written by Michael Dirda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a critical analysis of the works of the British author, including his mysteries about Sherlock Holmes and his lesser-known short stories and novels.

Houdini & Conan Doyle

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Publisher : Duckworth
ISBN 13 : 9780715641460
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (414 download)

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Book Synopsis Houdini & Conan Doyle by : Christopher Sandford

Download or read book Houdini & Conan Doyle written by Christopher Sandford and published by Duckworth. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 20th century, in the English-speaking world, Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini were two of the most feted and famous men alive. And their relationship is extraordinary: As strange as it may seem Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of the ultra-rational detective Sherlock Holmes, was a believer in Spiritualism. He came to his belief, that one could communicate with the dead, after his son was killed in World War I, and became an expert in the field. Harry Houdini, the world's foremost magician, was a friend of Conan Doyle's, but was sceptical of his belief in the supernatural. Houdini took every opportunity to use his knowledge of illusion to expose psychics who he thought were fakes, particularly incensed by their exploitation of grief and insecurity. Based on original research, this sensational dual biography of two popular geniuses conjures up the early 20th century and the fame, personality and competing beliefs.

Gothic Tales

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198734298
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Book Synopsis Gothic Tales by : Arthur Conan Doyle

Download or read book Gothic Tales written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'There was a rumour, too, that he was a devil-worshipper, or something of that sort, and also that he had the evil eye...' Arthur Conan Doyle was the greatest genre writer Britain has ever produced. Throughout a long writing career, he drew on his own medical background, his travels, and his increasing interest in spiritualism and the occult to produce a spectacular array of Gothic stories. Many of Doyle's writings are recognized as the very greatest tales of terror. They range from hauntings in the polar wasteland to evil surgeons and malevolent jungle landscapes. This collection brings together over thirty of Conan Doyle's best "Gothic Tales," in a scholarly edition for the first time. Darryl Jones's introduction discusses the contradictions in Conan Doyle's very public life - as a medical doctor who became obsessed with the spirit world, or a British imperialist drawn to support Irish Home Rule - and shows the ways in which these found articulation in that most anxious of all literary forms, the Gothic.

The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 679 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Doctor and the Detective

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312242514
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis The Doctor and the Detective by : Martin Booth

Download or read book The Doctor and the Detective written by Martin Booth and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Conan Doyle

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Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1780222629
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Conan Doyle by : Andrew Lycett

Download or read book Conan Doyle written by Andrew Lycett and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground-breaking biography of the creator of fiction's best loved detective Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades he was overshadowed by his creation, Sherlock Holmes - one of literature's most enduring characters. Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions. Romantic, energetic, idealistic and upstanding, he could also be selfish and foolhardy. Lycett assembles the many threads of Conan Doyle's life, including the lasting impact of his domineering mother and his alcoholic father; his affair with a younger woman while his wife lay dying; and his fanatical pursuit of scientific data to prove and explain various supernatural phenomena. Lycett combines access to new material with assiduous research and penetrating insight to offer the most comprehensive, lucid and sympathetic portrait yet of Conan Doyle's personal journey from student to doctor, from world-famous author to ardent spiritualist.

Sherlock Holmes

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (464 download)

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Book Synopsis Sherlock Holmes by : Arthur Conan Doyle

Download or read book Sherlock Holmes written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I

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Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0307834409
Total Pages : 1090 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories Volume I written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional characters ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero--a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventures in crime! Volume I includes the early novel A Study in Scarlet, which introduced the eccentric genius of Sherlock Holmes to the world. This baffling murder mystery, with the cryptic word Rache written in blood, first brought Holmes together with Dr. John Watson. Next, The Sign of Four presents Holmes’s famous “seven percent solution” and the strange puzzle of Mary Morstan in the quintessential locked-room mystery. Also included are Holmes’s feats of extraordinary detection in such famous cases as the chilling “ The Adventure of the Speckled Band,” the baffling riddle of “The Musgrave Ritual,” and the ingeniously plotted “The Five Orange Pips,” tales that bring to life a Victorian England of horse-drawn cabs, fogs, and the famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street, where Sherlock Holmes earned his undisputed reputation as the greatest fictional detective of all time.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN 13 : 1467775274
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by First Avenue Editions ™. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No mystery is too challenging for the infamous detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner, Dr. Watson. Holmes is at his best when the job seems impossible—or just plain absurd. From cases involving a strange group for red-headed men to a missing thumb, Holmes uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve even the weirdest mysteries. Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published his first twelve original Sherlock Holmes short stories as serials in the UK's Strand Magazine from 1891-1892. This unabridged collection of the stories is taken from the book form, originally published in 1892.

Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351956957
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity by : Diana Barsham

Download or read book Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity written by Diana Barsham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography, Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes themed on the subject of masculinity and its representation. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle's career in the context of that nineteenth-century biographical tradition which Dr Watson so successfully appropriated. It explores Doyle's determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project. A Scotsman with an alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late Victorian masculinity. As novelist, war correspondent, historian, legal campaigner, propagandist and religious leader, he used his fame as the creator of Sherlock Holmes to refigure the spirit of British Imperialism. This original and thought-provoking study offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a series of dialoguic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill to define the masculine presence in British culture. In his spiritualist campaign, Doyle took on the figure of St Paul in an attempt to create a new religious culture for a Socialist age.

Using Psychology

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Using Psychology by : Morris K. Holland

Download or read book Using Psychology written by Morris K. Holland and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1980 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Adventures of Conan Doyle

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Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780393331103
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (311 download)

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Book Synopsis The Adventures of Conan Doyle by : Charles Higham

Download or read book The Adventures of Conan Doyle written by Charles Higham and published by W W Norton & Company Incorporated. This book was released on 1976 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, who was also a pioneer in the fields of bird preservation, divorce reform, science fiction, and psychic investigation.

The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0815412029
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle

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Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486237251
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of works dealing with the supernatural by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Sherlock Holmes Collection

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ISBN 13 : 9781844561896
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Sherlock Holmes Collection written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir and published by . This book was released on 2006-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All four classic Sherlock Holmes audiobooks, now available together for the first time in one specially priced pack