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Publisher description for Arthur Conan Doyle : a life in letters / edited by Jon Lellenberg, Daniel Stashower & Charles Foley. This remarkable annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's previously unpublished private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's mo...

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Main Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930
Other Authors: Lellenberg, Jon L., Stashower, Daniel, Foley, Charles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2007.
Subjects:
Doyle, Arthur Conan, > 1859-1930. > Correspondence.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, > 1859-1930.
Doyle, Arthur Conan, > (1859-1930) > Correspondance.
Doyle, Arthur Conan.
Authors, Scottish > 19th century > Correspondence.
Authors, Scottish > 20th century > Correspondence.
Authors, Scottish.
1800-1999
Autobiographies.
Records and correspondence.
Correspondence.
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Table of Contents:
  • The schoolboy (1867-1876)
  • The medical student (1876-1882)
  • The struggling doctor (1882-1884)
  • Cracking the oyster (1884-1890)
  • "Author of Sherlock Holmes" (1891-1893)
  • Putting Holmes behind him (1894-1896)
  • Country life (1896-1898)
  • War in South Africa (1899-1900)
  • Politics and honours (1900-1902)
  • The final Hindhead years (1903-1907)
  • Windlesham to the outbreak of war (1907-1914)
  • The World War (1914-1918)
  • His last crusade (1918-1920)
  • Epilogue : Conan Doyle's final decade.