PREFACE TO THE FINAL EDITION.
During the course of the war some sixteen Editions
of this work have appeared, each of which was, I hope,
a little more full and accurate than that which preceded
it.&nbs...
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"I remarked to my mother with precocious wisdom that it was easy to get people into scrapes," Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in his autobiography, Memories and Adventures, "but not so easy to get them out a...
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Of all the manifold literary achievements of the Victorian age, the most important and enduring may very well turn out to be those traditionally regarded as mere entertainment, as "light" and popular ...
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It is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of fiction which had be...
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Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for his short stories and novels about Sherlock Holmes, whom Jon L. Lellenberg describes in The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Thirteen Biographies in Search of a L...
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is better known for his detective, Sherlock Holmes, than for his stories and novels of fantasy and science fiction, but his contributions to these other genres were formidable. ...
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The British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best remembered as the creator of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on May 22, 1859, int...
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Biography EssayIt is difficult to imagine the shape which detective fiction might have taken had it not been for the creation by Arthur Conan Doyle of Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle took a form of ficti...
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