Arthur Conan Doyle A Life in Letters

Name: Arthur Conan Doyle A Life in Letters
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ISBN: 9780143114338

ISBN-10: 0143114336

ISBN-13: 9780143114338

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Authors: Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower, Charles Foley

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A remarkable annotated collection of previously unpublished private correspondence from the creator of Sherlock Holmes This extraordinary annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyles private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the worlds most popular authors. Detailing Conan Doyles life from his beginnings as a country doctor to his struggle with the success of Sherlock Holmes and his ultimate calling as the foremost spokesman for Spiritualism, Conan Doyles letters expose his innermost thoughts on literature, world events, and matters of the heart. Under the stewardship of editors renowned for their expertise on both Conan Doyles life and the Sherlock Holmes stories, this…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.40" long x 1.55" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Daniel Stashower is the author of four mystery novels and a winner of the Raymond Chandler Fulbright Fellowship in Detective and Crime Fiction Writing. He lives in Bethesda, MD.



Introduction


The Schoolboy (1867-1876)


The Medical Student (1876-1882)


The Struggling Doctor (1882-1884)


Cracking the Oyster (1884-1890)


"Author of Sherlock Holmes" (1891-1893)


Putting Holmes Behind Him (1894-1896)


Country Life (1896-1898)


War in South Africa (1899-1900)


Politics and Honours (1900-1902)


The Final Hindhead Years (1903-1907)


Windlesham to the Outbreak of War (1907-1914)


The World War (1914-1918)


His Last Crusade (1918-1920)


Epilogue: Conan Doyle's Final Decade


Acknowledgments


Index