Arthur Conan Doyle

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

2-Including the Novella 'The Doings of Raffles Haw, ' Two Novelettes and Fourt

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Produktbeschreibung

More strange tales from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle This second helping of the Leonaur three volume edition of Conan Doyle's weird and unearthly fiction continues with yet another generous helping of uneasy reading as part of what is, perhaps, an unprecedented gathering together of this great writers contributions to the genre. This volume includes the novella, 'The Doings of Raffles Haw' and two novelettes, 'Danger, Being the Log of Captain John Sirius' and 'Bones, the April Fool of Harvey's Sluice.' In addition the fourteen short stories here include 'The Captain of the Polestar,' 'The Brazilian Cat,' 'The Brown Hand,' 'The Usher of Lea House School,' 'The Japanned Box,' 'Through the Veil, 'The Ring of Thoth' and other equally gripping tales of terror. This Leonaur three volume set appears in coordinating covers and is available in softcover and in hardcover with dustjacket making it an essential addition to the libraries of collectors.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LEONAUR
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781846778391
• ISBN-10: 1846778395
• Artikelnr.: 26973082

Autorenporträt

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ DL (22 May 1859 - 7 July 1930) was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. Originally a physician, in 1887 he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; his non-Sherlockian works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement", helped to popularise the mystery of the Mary Celeste. Doyle is often referred to as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or simply Conan Doyle (implying that "Conan" is part of a compound surname as opposed to his given middle name). His baptism entry in the register of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, gives "Arthur Ignatius Conan" as his given names and "Doyle" as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.[1] The cataloguers of the British Libraryand the Library of Congress treat "Doyle" alone as his surname. Steven Doyle, editor of The Baker Street Journal, wrote, "Conan was Arthur's middle name. Shortly after he graduated from high school he began using Conan as a sort of surname. But technically his last name is simply 'Doyle'."[3] When knighted, he was gazetted as Doyle, not under the compound Conan Doyle Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was born in England, of Irish Catholic descent, and his mother, Mary (née Foley), was Irish Catholic. His parents married in 1855.[7] In 1864 the family dispersed because of Charles's growing alcoholism, and the children were temporarily housed across Edinburgh. In 1867, the family came together again and lived in squalid tenement flats at 3 Sciennes Place.[8] Doyle's father died in 1893, in the Crichton Royal, Dumfries, after many years of psychiatric illness.

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