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

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.

Author: Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 04/08/2002
Pages: 544
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.93lbs
Size: 9.27h x 6.32w x 1.39d
ISBN: 9780815412021

Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 03/25/2002 pg. 46
Library Journal 05/15/2002 pg. 97
Publishers Weekly 03/25/2002

About the Author
Jeffrey Meyers is the author of Scott Fitzgerald: A Biography, Gary Cooper: American Hero, and Orwell: Wintry Conscience of a Generation. Valerie Meyers is the author of a book on Orwell's fiction and articles on Wyndham Lewis, Hemingway and Barbara Pym. The Meyers live in Berkeley, California.