โ Arthur Conan Doyle
๐ Fiction
๐
2011
๐ ManyBooks.net
๐ English
โ 126 KB
๐ 1 views
โฆ LIBER โฆ
A Duet, With an Occasional Chorus
โ Scribed by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publisher;CSP Classic Texts
- Year
- 1899;2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 128 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1847189423
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โฆ Synopsis
A Duet is a novel, set in Conan Doyle's own time, written partly in the epistolary form he sought to revive after a century of disuse and which was also related to the self-conscious textuality of the late-Victorian urban Gothic.
About the Author
The life of Arthur Conan Doyle illustrates the excitement and diversity of the Victorian age unlike that of any other single figure of the period. At different points in his life he was a surgeon on a whaling ship; a GP; an apprentice eye-surgeon; an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate (twice); a multi-talented sportsman; one of the inventors of cross-country skiing in Switzerland; a formidable public speaker; a campaigner against miscarriages of justice; a military strategist; a writer in a range of forms; and the head of an extraordinary family. In his autobiography, he wrote: 'I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded.' He was not wrong. But Conan Doyle was also a Victorian with a twist, a man of tensions and contradictions. He was fascinated by travel, exploration, and invention, indeed all things modern and technological; yet at the same time he was also very traditional, voicing support for values such as chivalry, duty, constancy, and honour. By the time of his death in July 1930 he was a celebrity, achieving worldwide fame and notoriety for his creation of the rationalist, scientific super-detective Sherlock Holmes; yet at the same time his later decades were taken up with his advocacy of the new religion of Spiritualism, in which he was a devoted believer.
Library : Romance
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781847189424
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