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Sir Nigel – Arthur Conan Doyle

In “Sir Nigel” we have a wonderfully fine romance of the Fourteenth Century, with all the brilliant pageantry, the barbarity and the sweet chivalry of the Middle Ages. This is unquestionably one of Conan Doyle’s masterpieces — his splendid art at its maturest — and maybe his ripest, most complete work.

Sir Nigel

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Sir Nigel.

ISBN: 9783849690090

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

The tale, at its outset, traces the fortunes of the family of Loring of the Manor of Tilford in Surrey, many of whose scions had been prominent in the service of the Norman and Angevin Kings of England, against the backdrop of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

Another, and one of the best known adventures of Sherlock Holmes, lets him dive into an old English west country legend. One of the squires of Baskerville in a drunken frolic, it is said, sold himself, for a consideration, to the evil one. Forever afterwards, an immense and hideous hound at times haunted the moors at night …

The Hound of the Baskervilles

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The Hound of the Baskervilles.

ISBN: 9783849690083

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Tragedy of the Korosko – Arthur Conan Doyle

This book is one of the most pleasing pieces of work that has come from Dr. Conan Doyle’s versatile pen. There is not a jarring note sounded in the whole story, there is not a single character introduced that is not sympathetically pictured, that does not make immediate and successful appeal to the imagination of the reader. The plot is full of dramatic power, and it does not nag for an instant. Even the political discussions are lively and entertaining reading. A Desert Drama may not take rank as literature with Micah Clarke or The White Company, but it is most emphatically a book to be read and enjoyed by thousands. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Uncle Bernac – Arthur Conan Doyle

Doyle is evidently gifted with the remarkable talent to successfully stand with the peers in the arena of book writing. ” Sherlock Holmes ” was his master creation among the mysterious in character delineation. Then came “The Refugees,” “Micah Clark,” “Rodney Stone” and other works of an entirely different character. “Uncle Bernac” is an historical romance dealing with Napoleon’s threatened invasion of England. The hero crosses from England into France and has many dramatic and remarkable experiences. In the field of fiction Conan Doyle’s books are among the best sellers. “Uncle Bernac,” a Memory of the Empire, makes no exeception there. 

Uncle Bernac

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Uncle Bernac.

ISBN: 9783849690236

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Rodney Stone – Arthur Conan Doyle

“Rodney Stone” is a rattling good novel, and we use the phrase advisedly as conveying a better notion of the book’s excellent qualities than might be given by some more elaborate and courtly turn of language. The pages are full of life, and this is the more remarkable because Dr. Conan Doyle has chosen a period which is for novelistic purposes at once dangerously near to, and far from, the present day. When George IV. was Prince of Wales and the prize-ring had not yet become corrupt, human emotions were no doubt not very different from what they were, are, and will be, but the fashion of expressing them was peculiar to a transitional … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Stark Munro Letters – Arthur Conan Doyle

Obviously “The Stark Munro Letters” have not the fascination of the unique Sherlock Holmes, but the book is a bit of real literature. It narrates the struggles of a young medical man to secure a footing, and the courage and energy of this person are not less than admirable. There are some excellent sketches of character apart from that of Dr. Munro himself, the principal one being that of a strange mixture of genius and charlatanism named Cullingworth, who nearly wrecks the manly Munro, but whose influence is happily thrown off in time. The book has a curious life-like quality, almost impelling a conviction that its material has been taken from facts … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” is the first of many short story collections featuring detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Watson. Among many others, it contains the following episodes:

A Scandal In Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
A Case Of Identity
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Five Orange Pips
The Man With The Twisted Lip
The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

ISBN: 9783849690199

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Basics about the book (from Wikipedia):

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Refugees – Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a very enticing study in the manner of Dumas pere that Mr. Conan Doyle has written in “The Refugees.” Brightly conceived, carried through with spirit, gracefully and gaily written are the two strings that are woven together. In the earlier part we have a picturesque summary of events at the Court of Louis XIV about the fall of the Montespan and the marriage of the Maintenon. In the later part we have a rollicking tale of adventures in America during the close of the seventeenth century. “The Refugees” is a charming contribution to an admirable kind of literature.

The Refugees

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The Refugees.

ISBN: 9783849690861

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The Great Shadow – Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Great Shadow”is a romance with an historical background of the Scottish border in the time of Napoleon, who personifies the great shadow that hung over the land and filled men’s hearts with fears of an invasion. The principal figure in the tale is a young girl, wayward, impulsive, romantic, fickle, captivating, who, after having had two lovers among her fellows, runs off with a gallant Frenchman whose stories of the great world inflame her imagination. This mysterious stranger, who stays with the Scotch family for a long time, turns out to be an aide-de-camp to Napoleon, and when his chief returns from Elba he hastens to join him. The two young fellows … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Beyond the City – Arthur Conan Doyle

Two maiden ladies living “beyond the city” of London rent some of their land to a builder, who puts up three villas. The novel tells the story of the people who become tenants of these cottages, the most important of whom is a handsome widow who works for the emancipation of women and teaches her young girl neighbors to smoke cigarettes, drink stout, talk slang …

Beyond the City

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Beyond the City.

ISBN: 9783849690847

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A short biography of the author (from Wikipedia):

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician, most noted … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...