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Memories and Adventures

Autor Arthur Conan Doyle
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2023
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789357389648
ISBN-10: 9357389644
Pagini: 322
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: Alpha Editions

Cuprins

Preface; 1. Early recollections; 2. Under the Jesuits; 3. Recollections of a student; 4. Whaling in the Arctic Ocean; 5. My voyage to West Africa; 6. My first experiences in practice; 7. My start at Southsea; 8. My first literary success; 9. Pulling up the anchor; 10. The great break; 11. Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes; 12. Norwood and Switzerland; 13. Egypt in 1896; 14. On the edge of a storm; 15. An interlude of peace; 16. The start for South Africa; 17. Days with the army; 18. Final experiences in South Africa; 19. An appeal to the world's opinion; 20. My political adventures; 21. The years between the wars; 22. The years between the wars (contd.); 23. Some notable people; 24. Some recollections of sport; 25. To the Rocky Mountains in 1914; 26. The eve of war; 27. A remembrance of the dark years; 28. Experiences on the British Front; 29. Experiences on the Italian Front; 30. Experiences on the French Front; 31. Breaking the Hindenburg Line; 32. The psychic quest.

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First published in 1923, this autobiography explores Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life from his school years to literary success and beyond.

Notă biografică

Douglas Kerr is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and former Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice (Oxford UP, 2013), Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing (Hong Kong UP, 2008), George Orwell (Writers and their Work series, 2003), and Wilfred Owen's Voices: Language and Community (Oxford UP, 1993).