The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader: From Sherlock Holmes to Spiritualism

By Arthur Conan Doyle

Book Overview

Best known as the creator of the consulting detective par excellence Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a man of wide-ranging interests and talents, and his literary output went far beyond his Holmes and Watson stories. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Reader collects works from all the genres in which he wrote, including mysteries, historical adventure tales, science fiction stories, ghost stories, plays, memoirs, essays on spiritualism (in which he was a dedicated believer) and reports on the Boer War and World War I. This collection features the account of Watson's first meeting with Holmes from A Study in Scarlet, an account of the dinosaurs inhabiting The Lost World, tales of Doyle's Napoleonic hero Brigadier Gerard, a condemnation of Belgium's exploitation of the Congo, and the complete text of his apocalyptic book The Poison Belt, in addition to several other stories and excerpts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815412029
• ISBN13: 9780815412021
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Cooper Square Press
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7

Customer Reviews

Arthur Conan Doyle Reader -- a good book

I thought the book very good except I would wish that the few sections that were excerpts would be the complete book... for example, "The Lost World". I had to download the complete book from the internet (for free) to read it. I felt that just having a part of that book, for example, was not sufficient to enjoy it. this might be good for a text book, but those who really love Doyle are going to want more...