Author : SIR ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789386423375
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (233 download)
Book Synopsis Rodney Stone (World Classics, Unabridged) by : SIR ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE
Download or read book Rodney Stone (World Classics, Unabridged) written by SIR ARTHUR CONAN. DOYLE and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. The novel interweaves Rodney's coming-of-age story with that of his friend Boy Jim's boxing endeavors, and a large portion of it deals with the famous bare-knuckle boxers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, such as Jem Belcher, John Jackson, Daniel Mendoza, Dutch Sam, and others. The book includes vignettes of a number of historical personages, notably the Prince Regent, Lord Nelson, Sir John Lade, Lord Cochrane and Beau Brummell.