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| Name: |
Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir | | Birth Date: |
May 22, 1859 | | Death Date: |
July 6, 1930 | | Place of Birth: |
Edinburgh, Scotland | | Place of Death: |
Crowborough, Sussex, England | | Nationality: |
English | | Gender: |
Male | | Occupations: |
author, surgeon, ophthalmologist |
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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
952 words, approx. 3.2 pages
 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, into an Irish Roman Catholic family of noted artistic ac...
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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir
12245 words, approx. 40.8 pages
 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 become popular through the works of his predecessors, Ed...
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Biography of Arthur Conan Doyle
11405 words, approx. 38 pages
 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 Life (1987) as "the most universally recognized fiction...



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The Lost World Information
1,592 words, approx. 5 pages
 The Lost World is a 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle concerning an expedition to a plateau (native name is Tepuyes) in South America (Guyana) where prehistoric animals (dinosaurs and other extinct creatures) still survive. The character of Professor...




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Explorer blazes new trails in Venezuela
5/11/2007: 881 words, approx. 3 pages CHIMANTA TEPUI, Venezuela _ Charles Brewer Carias has discovered giant sinkholes, collected new species of plants and scorpions, and rappelled into unexplored caves on his nearly 200 expeditions into the flat-topped mountains and jungles of Venezuela.The mustachioed 68-year-old says his passion for discovery makes him...


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The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle | |
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About 210 pages (62,963 words) in 9 products |
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