The Narrative of John Smith (häftad)
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Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
144
Utgivningsdatum
2011-09-26
Upplaga
Deluxe limited (250 numbered) ed
Förlag
The British Library Publishing Division
Antal komponenter
1
ISBN
9780712358491

The Narrative of John Smith

av Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2011-09-26

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Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first novel The Narrative of John Smith in 1883 when he was just 23, living in Portsmouth and struggling to establish himself as a doctor and a writer. Never published before, it has exceptional value as a window into the mind of the creator of Sherlock Holmes, and many of the themes and tropes of Conan Doyle's later writing can clearly be seen. Via the protagonist, John Smith, a 50-year-old man confined to his room by an attack of gout, Conan Doyle sets down his thoughts and opinions on a range of subjects - literature, science, religion, war and education - making it a novel of considerable biographical importance. While it is more a string of ruminations than a fully developed novel, The Narrative of John Smith is, nevertheless, a fascinating record of an early attempt at writing by a man who was on his way to becoming one of the best-known authors in the world. To celebrate this unique publishing event, we will be releasing a special slipcased cloth-bound edition, limited to 250 numbered copies.

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"Someone, I think it was the noted Janeite Lord David Cecil, once said that Jane Austen was the kind of writer on whose laundry lists and notes to the milkman any keen reader would pounce. While Conan Doyle may not be considered to be in quite that category there can be no doubt that the heart of every lover of British writing will rejoice at this discovery of an early and as yet unpublished work by the creator of Holmes, Watson, Moriarty and Professor Challenger. The breadth, depth and scope of Conan Doyle's knowledge and curiosity is often overlooked. He was the first popular writer to tell the wider reading public about narcotics, the Ku Klux Klan, the mafia, the Mormons, American crime gangs, corrupt union bosses and much else besides. His boundless energy, enthusiasm and wide-ranging mind, not to mention the pitch-perfect, muscular and memorable prose is all on display here in a work whose publication is very very welcome indeed."--Stephen Fry--Stephen Fry

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Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a doctor and a writer. Best known for his creation of Sherlock Holmes and impact on the genre of crime fiction he also wrote short stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry and non-fiction.

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