Бумажные издания
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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters Артур Конан Дойл
ISBN: 1594201358, 9781594201356 Год издания: 2007 Издательство: Penguin Press Язык: Английский More than seventy-five years after his death, the famed creator of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle, remains one of the world's best-loved authors. This candid, never-before-published volume of letters sheds light on Conan Doyle's fascinating career, not only as an author but as a physician, sportsman, war correspondent and crusader for social justice. From his troubled marriage to his controversial Spiritualist beliefs and from his early whale-hunting days to later celebrity, each chapter of Conan Doyle's life was as gripping as any of his own adventure tales. Gracefully written and warmly revealing, these letters illuminate Conan…
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Произведения
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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters Артур Конан Дойл
Форма: документальное произведение Дата написания: 2007 Язык: Английский An annotated collection of the esteemed author's private correspondence includes letters shared with his mother that offers insight into his endless search for fulfillment and success outside of the Sherlock Holmes tales, his decision to leave his medical profession to write full time, and his forays into spiritualism. 50,000 first printing.
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Электронные книги
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Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters Артур Конан Дойл
ISBN: 9780007346110 Год издания: 2009 Издательство: Harper Perennial Язык: Английский A collection of letters between Arthur Conan Doyle (author and creator of Sherlock Holmes) and his mother, covering most of his life, written between 1867 and the year of her death in 1921.Doyle was raised almost solely by his mother in Dickensian circumstances, (his father latterly suffered from dipsomania and epilepsy and so spent much of his later life in asylums).Since Sherlock Holmes's inception in 1887, he has been one of the best-known and widely read literary characters, and the subject of more radio and television shows and motion pictures than any other fictional character in history. Although Doyle and his Holmes continue to be…