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Cover: 9780786712342 | The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | John Dickson Carr | Taschenbuch
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The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Taschenbuch von John Dickson Carr
Sprache: Englisch

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A great modern master of detective fiction writes the life of the man who created the most famous literary detective of them all This singularly vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--to his notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence. Like his creation Sherlock Holmes, Doyle had "a horror of destroying documents, " and until his death in 1930, they accumulated to vast amount throughout his house at Windlesham. They also provide many of the words incorporated by Carr in his lively, emotionally immediate portrayal of Doyle's forays into politics, his infatuation with spiritualism, his literary ambitions, and dinner-table conversations with friends like H. G. Wells and King Edward VII. Carr, then, in a sense collaborates with his subject to unfold a colorful narrative that takes Doyle from his school days at Stonyhurst to Edinburgh University and a medical practice at Southsea, where he conceived the idea of wedding scientific study to criminal investigation in the fictive person of Sherlock Holmes. It also explores the private tragedy of Doyle's first marriage and long-delayed second as it follows him into the arena of public activity, propaganda, and literary output that would win him not only celebrity but also (under protest) knighthood.
A great modern master of detective fiction writes the life of the man who created the most famous literary detective of them all This singularly vivid biography, written by John Dickson Carr, a giant in the field of mystery fiction, benefits from his full access to the archives of the eminent Sir Arthur Conan Doyle--to his notebooks, diaries, press clippings, and voluminous correspondence. Like his creation Sherlock Holmes, Doyle had "a horror of destroying documents, " and until his death in 1930, they accumulated to vast amount throughout his house at Windlesham. They also provide many of the words incorporated by Carr in his lively, emotionally immediate portrayal of Doyle's forays into politics, his infatuation with spiritualism, his literary ambitions, and dinner-table conversations with friends like H. G. Wells and King Edward VII. Carr, then, in a sense collaborates with his subject to unfold a colorful narrative that takes Doyle from his school days at Stonyhurst to Edinburgh University and a medical practice at Southsea, where he conceived the idea of wedding scientific study to criminal investigation in the fictive person of Sherlock Holmes. It also explores the private tragedy of Doyle's first marriage and long-delayed second as it follows him into the arena of public activity, propaganda, and literary output that would win him not only celebrity but also (under protest) knighthood.
Über den Autor
John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) wrote more than seventy mystery novels and numerous short stories, including The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes, a collection of tales he coauthored with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s son Adrian.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Genre: Biographien, Importe
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780786712342
ISBN-10: 0786712341
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Carr, John Dickson
Hersteller: Da Capo Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 213 x 140 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: John Dickson Carr
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.11.2003
Gewicht: 0,46 kg
Artikel-ID: 102534112
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