Conan Doyle : writing, profession, and practice /

From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years Conan Doyle produced a wealth of narratives. This text presen...

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Main Author: Kerr, Douglas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years Conan Doyle produced a wealth of narratives. This text presents a full account of all of his writing, and an investigation of the role of the author as he practised it, as witness, critic and interpreter of his times.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-266) and index.
ISBN:9780191662577
0191662577
9780191756986
0191756989