The Return of Sherlock Holmes - Couverture souple

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0192823760 ISBN 13 : 9780192823762

Editeur : Oxford Paperbacks, 1994

Synopsis

Ten years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes at the Reichenbach Falls, Arthur Conan Doyle was to bow to popular pressure and breathe new life into his creation. To the astonishment of Dr Watson, and the delight of his readers, Holmes reappears in Baker Street to embark on a new series of adventures. Amongst the famous cases he and Watson tackle are "The Dancing Men", "The Solitary Cyclist", and "The Six Napoleons". Conan Doyle's own life provided inspiration for the tales, from his days as a student doctor on a Greenland whaler to the overwhelming grief he experienced from his wife's slow death from tuberculosis.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland into an Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. He then settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast and divided his time between medicine and writing. He is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet', published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in 1887. This later led to a contract writing more Sherlock Holmes stories for the Strand magazine. It was in these early stories that he developed the character of Sherlock Holmes. It was a character that fascinated the reading public and he soon became one of the best-loved fictional characters. In 1893, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote a number of other novels, including 'The Lost World' and various non-fictional works. Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0192823760
• ISBN 13: 9780192823762
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 415
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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