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Andrew Lycett Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
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- Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes : the Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Publication Name
- Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
- Title
- Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
- Subtitle
- The Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 074327525X
- EAN
- 9780743275255
- ISBN
- 9780743275255
- Publisher
- Free Press
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 18/11/2008
- Release Year
- 2008
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1.8in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Topic
- General, Literary, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Number of Pages
- 576 Pages
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Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognized the world over, for decades the man himself has been overshadowed by his better understood creation, Sherlock Holmes, who has become one of literature's most enduring characters. Based on thousands of previously unavailable documents, Andrew Lycett, author of the critically acclaimed biography Dylan Thomas, offers the first definitive biography of the baffling Conan Doyle, finally making sense of a long-standing mystery: how the scientifically minded creator of the world's most rational detective himself succumbed to an avid belief in spiritualism, including communication with the dead. Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions. Always romantic, energetic, idealistic and upstanding, he could also be selfish and fool-hardy. Lycett assembles the many threads of Conan Doyle's life, including the lasting impact of his domineering mother and his wayward, alcoholic father; his affair with a younger woman while his wife lay dying; and his nearly fanatical pursuit of scientific data to prove and explain various supernatural phenomena. Lycett reveals the evolution of Conan Doyle's nature and ideas against the backdrop of his intense personal life, wider society and the intellectual ferment of his age. In response to the dramatic scientific and social transformations at the turn of the century, he rejected traditional religious faith in favor of psychics and séances -- and in this way he embodied all of his late-Victorian, early-Edwardian era's ambivalence about the advance of science and the decline of religion. The first biographer to gain access to Conan Doyle's newly released personal archive -- which includes correspondence, diaries, original manuscripts and more -- Lycett combines assiduous research with penetrating insight to offer the most comprehensive, lucid and sympathetic portrait yet of Conan Doyle's personal journey from student to doctor, from world-famous author to ardent spiritualist.
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Publisher
Free Press
ISBN-10
074327525x
ISBN-13
9780743275255
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038430893
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes : the Life and Times of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Historical, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
576 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.8in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Additional Product Features
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"[An] excellent biography.... Comprehensive and authoritative, it is undoubtedly the best account of Doyle to date, and the best we are likely to get."-- The Sunday Times (London), "In Andrew Lycett's hugely enjoyable new biography, the sheer breathtaking dynamism of [Conan Doyle] shines through.... [An] impeccably researched book."-- The Sunday Telegraph (London), "Conan Doyle has found a biographer of distinction in Andrew Lycett.... Lycett's brilliant piece of detective work on the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories now allows us to judge his literary worth against that of his peers and properly to set him in the context of his times.... [A] splendid biography."-- The Guardian , Book of the Week selection (London), "[A] sympathetic new biography...shrewd and thorough...entertaining."-- The Independent on Sunday (London), "Lycett seamlessly interweaves Conan Doyle's letters, autobiography, and published travel writing.... The most detailed map yet published." -- Los Angeles Times, "Lycett excels in unearthing the sources from which Doyle drew to endow Holmes with unique skills.... [A] brilliant analysis." -- Sunday Herald (Scotland), "[An] excellent biography.... Comprehensive and authoritative, it is undoubtedly the best account of Doyle to date, and the best we are likely to get." -- The Sunday Times (London), "Comprehensive and action-packed.... The first [biography] to incorporate private family papers that became available only after the death of the author's last surviving offspring.... We see Conan Doyle's flaws as clearly as his virtues.... Despite its wealth of detail, the book moves quickly." --The Washington Post, "Comprehensive and action-packed.... The first [biography] to incorporate private family papers that became available only after the death of the author's last surviving offspring.... We see Conan Doyle's flaws as clearly as his virtues.... Despite its wealth of detail, the book moves quickly." -- The Washington Post, "Conan Doyle has found a biographer of distinction in Andrew Lycett.... Lycett's brilliant piece of detective work on the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories now allows us to judge his literary worth against that of his peers and properly to set him in the context of his times.... [A] splendid biography." -- The Guardian, Book of the Week selection (London), "[A] sympathetic new biography...shrewd and thorough...entertaining." -- The Independent on Sunday (London), "[A] sympathetic new biography...shrewd and thorough...entertaining." --The Independent on Sunday(London), "Lycett excels in unearthing the sources from which Doyle drew to endow Holmes with unique skills.... [A] brilliant analysis."-- Sunday Herald (Scotland), "Conan Doyle has found a biographer of distinction in Andrew Lycett.... Lycett's brilliant piece of detective work on the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories now allows us to judge his literary worth against that of his peers and properly to set him in the context of his times.... [A] splendid biography." -- The Guardian , Book of the Week selection (London), "Lycett seamlessly interweaves Conan Doyle's letters, autobiography, and published travel writing.... The most detailed map yet published." --Los Angeles Times, "In Andrew Lycett's hugely enjoyable new biography, the sheer breathtaking dynamism of [Conan Doyle] shines through.... [An] impeccably researched book." -- The Sunday Telegraph (London), "It is the precise and intelligent appreciation of the differences by which Conan Doyle was composed that makes Lycett's diagnosis of his subject so thoroughly satisfying. Using previously unseen archives, Lycett gives us Conan Doyle as a late Victorian and definitive Edwardian, battling with the uncertainties of his own age, weary of the uncertainties of the next one."-- The New Statesman (London), "Lycett excels in unearthing the sources from which Doyle drew to endow Holmes with unique skills.... [A] brilliant analysis." --Sunday Herald(Scotland), "Conan Doyle has found a biographer of distinction in Andrew Lycett.... Lycett's brilliant piece of detective work on the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories now allows us to judge his literary worth against that of his peers and properly to set him in the context of his times.... [A] splendid biography." --The Guardian, Book of the Week selection (London), "It is the precise and intelligent appreciation of the differences by which Conan Doyle was composed that makes Lycett's diagnosis of his subject so thoroughly satisfying. Using previously unseen archives, Lycett gives us Conan Doyle as a late Victorian and definitive Edwardian, battling with the uncertainties of his own age, weary of the uncertainties of the next one."--The New Statesman(London), "It is the precise and intelligent appreciation of the differences by which Conan Doyle was composed that makes Lycett's diagnosis of his subject so thoroughly satisfying. Using previously unseen archives, Lycett gives us Conan Doyle as a late Victorian and definitive Edwardian, battling with the uncertainties of his own age, weary of the uncertainties of the next one." -- The New Statesman (London), "[A] sympathetic new biography...shrewd and thorough...entertaining."--The Independent on Sunday(London), "In Andrew Lycett's hugely enjoyable new biography, the sheer breathtaking dynamism of [Conan Doyle] shines through.... [An] impeccably researched book." --The Sunday Telegraph(London)
Table of Content
Contents List of Illustrations Family tree Part One Taking In 1 Two Irish Families 2 Early Years in Edinburgh 1859-1868 3 Stonyhurst and Feldkirch 1868-1876 4 Edinburgh University 1876-1881 5 On the Road -- Ireland, West Africa and Plymouth 1881-1882 6 Bush Villas, Portsmouth 1882-1883 7 Marriage and A Study in Scarlet 1884-1886 8 Discovery of Spiritualism 1887-1888 9 Birth of a Daughter 1889-1890 Part Two Cargo Stored 10 Vienna and London 1891-1892 11 Tennison Road, South Norwood 1892 12 Swiss Interlude 1893-1894 13 America, Egypt and Undershaw 1894-1897 14 Jean Leckie 1897 15 Boer War and Aftermath 1899-1901 16 The Hound of the Baskervilles to Louise's Death 1901-1906 Part Three Giving Out 17 Edalji, Second Marriage and Windlesham 1907-1908 18 Pre-war: From Cornwall to Canada 1909-1914 19 First World War 1914-1918 20 Spiritualist Mission 1919-1924 21 Bignell Wood and Death 1925-1930Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Dewey Decimal
823/.8 B
Dewey Edition
22
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