Conan Doyle
The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes
$40.19
- Paperback
600 pages
- Release Date
1 November 2008
Summary
Though Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s name is recognised the world over, for decades he was overshadowed by his creation, Sherlock Holmes - one of literature’s most enduring characters.
Conan Doyle was a man of many contradictions. Romantic, energetic, idealistic and upstanding, he could also be selfish and foolhardy. Lycett assembles the many threads of Conan Doyle’s life, including the lasting impact of his domineering mother and his alcoholic father; his affair with a younger woman while…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780753824283 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0753824280 |
| Author: | Andrew Lycett |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 600 |
| Release Date: | 1 November 2008 |
| Weight: | 568g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 140mm x 41mm |
| Series: | Phoenix |
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‘Conan Doyle has found a biographer of distinction in Andrew Lycett’– GUARDIAN
‘Conan Doyle has found a biographer of distinction in Andrew Lycett’ - GUARDIAN
’[An] excellent biography. Comprehensive and authoritative, it is undoubtedly the best account of Doyle to date’ - SUNDAY TIMES‘In Andrew Lycett’s hugely enjoyable new biography, the sheer breathtaking dynamism of the man shines through’ - SUNDAY TELEGRAPHA compelling portrait … This is a model biography: lucid, fair and unfailingly readable - MAIL ON SUNDAYShrewd and thorough … Entertaining - INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAYA serious piece of work by an experienced professional biographer … Particularly good on the intellectual background to Doyle’s work - ECONOMISTLycett’s sophisticated account reveals a character with light and shade - DAILY TELEGRAPHLycett’s book has the effect of moving Conan Doyle into our age - SCOTTISH REVIEW OF BOOKSAbout The Author
Andrew Lycett
Andrew Lycett was educated at Charterhouse and went on to read modern history at Christ Church, Oxford. As a foreign reporter he specialised in Africa and the Middle East. A full-time author since the early 1990s, he has written a number of highly acclaimed biographies and lives in North London.
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