Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Name: Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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ISBN: 9780743275255

ISBN-10: 074327525X

ISBN-13: 9780743275255

Edition: N/A

Authors: Andrew Lycett

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Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters. Based on thousands of previously unavailable documents, Andrew Lycett, author of the critically acclaimed biography Dylan Thomas, offers the first definitive biography of the baffling Conan Doyle, finally making sense of a long-standing mystery: how the scientifically minded creator of the world's most rational detective himself succumbed to an avid belief in spiritualism, including communication with the dead. Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions. Always…

Book details

List price: $32.99
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 11/18/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 576
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Andrew Lycett was educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford (where he read modern history). As a foreign reporter he specialised in Africa and the Middle East. A full-time author since the early 1990s, he has written a number of highly acclaimed biographies and lives in north London.



List of Illustrations


Family tree



Taking In



Two Irish Families



Early Years in Edinburgh 1859-1868



Stonyhurst and Feldkirch 1868-1876



Edinburgh University 1876-1881



On the Road-Ireland, West Africa and Plymouth 1881-1882



Bush Villas, Portsmouth 1882-1883



Marriage and A Study in Scarlet 1884-1886



Discovery of Spiritualism 1887-1888



Birth of a Daughter 1889-1890



Cargo Stored



Vienna and London 1891-1892



Tennison Road, South Norwood 1892



Swiss Interlude 1893-1894



America, Egypt and Undershaw 1894-1897



Jean Leckie 1897



Boer War and Aftermath 1899-1901



The Hound of the Baskervilles to Louise's Death 1901-1906



Giving Out



Edalji, Second Marriage and Windlesham 1907-1908



Pre-war: From Cornwall to Canada 1909-1914



First World War 1914-1918



Spiritualist Mission 1919-1924



Bignell Wood and Death 1925-1930


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Notes


Select Bibliography


Index