Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
So great is the influence of Sherlock Holmes, that only the truest of the great detective's fans know that his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, thought far less of H...
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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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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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"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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In the following essay, Jann analyzes the Victorian perception that female sexuality was dangerous and delineates Arthur Conan Doyle's treatment of women's sexuality and transgressive be...
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"Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters" (The Penguin Press. 608 pages. $37.95), edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower and Charles Foley: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was famously convinced that the ...
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Question 1 of 10:Banned for years, which 1971 film saw
Hoffman
play a berserk, gun-toting American in rural England?
Straw Dogs
Midnight Cowboy
Billy Bathgate
American Buffalo
Question 2 of ...
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Which work won a 2007 Edgar Allan Poe award for best play? Elementary, my dear reader! It was "Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure," by Steven Dietz.That wasn't the only Edgar award winner with Si...
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Moscow (dpa) - He never visited Russia over the course of his
fictitious life, but Sherlock Holmes will soon grace Moscow in statue
form, authorities in the Russian capital ...
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LONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Harry Potter star Daniel
Radcliffe cannot imagine what it was like to live amid the
stench of death in the trenches of World War One -- but he says
his generation should...
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A team of forensic experts will test the remains of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini once his body is exhumed from a New York cemetery, searching for clues to his rumored murder, the head o...
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Get ready for "CSI: Houdini."A team of forensic experts will pore over the exhumed remains of renowned escape artist Harry Houdini to determine whether he was murdered more than 80 years ago, the h...
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Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
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Critical Essay by Rosemary Jann
Arthur Conan Doyle's letters focus on family life, not Sherlock Holmes
