Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging interests and talents, and his literary output went far beyond his Holmes and Watson stories. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader collects works from all the genres in which he wrote, including mysteries, historical adventure tales, science fiction stories, ghost stories, plays, memoirs, essays on spiritualism (in which he was a dedicated believer) and reports on the Boer War and World War I. This collection features the account of Watson's first...
Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging int...
Brings to life a set of extraordinary writers, painters, and literary adventurers who turned their lives into art. Jeffrey Meyers knew nine of these figures, in some cases intimately, while five others he admires and regrets never meeting.
Brings to life a set of extraordinary writers, painters, and literary adventurers who turned their lives into art. Jeffrey Meyers knew nine of these f...
