Teller of tales : the life of Arthur Conan Doyle / Daniel Stashower
- Bib ID:
- 1770224
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Stashower, Daniel
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : Holt, 1999
- xv, 472 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0805050744 (acid-free paper)
- 0805066845 (paperback)
- Summary:
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This biography examines the extraordinary life and strange contrasts of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the struggling provincial doctor who became the most popular storyteller of his age. From his youthful exploits aboard a whaling ship to his often stormy friendships with such figures as Harry Houdini and George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as one of his own adventures. Exhaustively researched and elegantly written, Teller of Tales sets aside many myths and misconceptions to present a vivid portrait of the man behind the legend of Baker Street, with a particular emphasis on the Psychic Crusade that dominated his final years - the work that Conan Doyle himself felt to be "the most important thing in the world."
- Full contents:
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- 1. The Empty Chair
- 2. The Cobbler's Lapstone
- 3. The Great Northern Diver
- 4. A Man of Doubtful Antecedents
- 5. Three Pounds of Furniture and a Tin of Corned Beef
- 6. "You Have Been in Afghanistan, I Perceive"
- 7. A Traveler from Slattenmere
- 8. A Singularly Deep Young Man
- 9. Reams of Impossible Stuff
- 10. The Two Collaborators
- 11. The Tremendous Abyss
- 12. A Skeleton in the Garden
- 13. Mr. Irving Takes Paregoric
- 14. Duet with an Occasional Chorus
- 15. Thoughts He Dare Not Say
- 16. The Helpful Mud Bath
- 17. The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound
- 18. The Bondage of Honor
- 19. A Perfectly Impossible Person
- 20. The Ruthless Vegetarian
- 21. England on Her Knees
- 22. An Audible Voice
- 23. The Flail of the Lord
- 24. Is Conan Doyle Mad?
- 25. Away with the Fairies
- 26. Pheneas Speaks
- 27. The Ectoplasmic Man
- 28. A Packet of Salts and Three Bucketfuls of Water
- 29. The Case of the Missing Lady
- 30. The End of the World.
- Epilogue: A Well-Remembered Voice.
- Notes:
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- Paperback "Owl book edition" published in 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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