Memories and Adventures
Published on 11. November 2021
Book
Hardback
586 pages
978-1-4744-3338-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle serves Conan Doyle's growing reputation as a significant force in the literature of Scotland, the English language and the world.
For the first time, the volume provides students, enthusiasts and researchers with everything needed for a serious appreciation of Memories and Adventures, the autobiography of Conan Doyle's life in literature, medicine, travel, politics, war, sport and spiritualism.
For the first time, the volume provides students, enthusiasts and researchers with everything needed for a serious appreciation of Memories and Adventures, the autobiography of Conan Doyle's life in literature, medicine, travel, politics, war, sport and spiritualism.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
8 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-3338-9 (9781474433389)
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Memories and Adventures
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Person
Douglas Kerr is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and Honorary Professor of English and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Orwell and Empire (2022), Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice (2013), Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing (2008), and Wilfred Owen's Voices: Language and Community (1993). He is General Editor of the Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle (22 vols), for which he has edited Conan Doyle's autobiography, Memories and Adventures (2022).
Content
General Editor's PrefaceAcknowledgementsChronology of the Life of Arthur Conan DoyleIntroductionGenesis and CompositionPublication HistoryReceptionContext: The Autobiographical TraditionContext: Historical Context: Biographical
Memories and AdventuresPrefaceEarly RecollectionsUnder the JesuitsRecollections of a StudentWhaling in the Arctic OceanMy Voyage to West AfricaMy First Experiences in PracticeMy Start at SouthseaMy First Literary SuccessPulling Up the AnchorThe Great BreakSidelights on Sherlock Holmes Norwood and Switzerland Egypt in 1896On the Edge of a StormAn Interlude of PeaceThe Start for South AfricaDays with the ArmyFinal Experiences in South AfricaAn Appeal to the World's OpinionMy Political Adventures The Years Between the Wars The Years Between the Wars (continued)Some Notable People
Some Recollections of Sport To the Rocky Mountains in 1914The Eve of WarA Remembrance of the Dark YearsExperiences on the British FrontExperiences on the Italian FrontExperiences on the French FrontBreaking the Hindenburg LineThe Psychic QuestAppendix - Up to Date (1930)IllustrationsAn Essay on the TextApparatusAbbreviations used in the ApparatusEmendations and VariationsExplanatory Notes
Memories and AdventuresPrefaceEarly RecollectionsUnder the JesuitsRecollections of a StudentWhaling in the Arctic OceanMy Voyage to West AfricaMy First Experiences in PracticeMy Start at SouthseaMy First Literary SuccessPulling Up the AnchorThe Great BreakSidelights on Sherlock Holmes Norwood and Switzerland Egypt in 1896On the Edge of a StormAn Interlude of PeaceThe Start for South AfricaDays with the ArmyFinal Experiences in South AfricaAn Appeal to the World's OpinionMy Political Adventures The Years Between the Wars The Years Between the Wars (continued)Some Notable People
Some Recollections of Sport To the Rocky Mountains in 1914The Eve of WarA Remembrance of the Dark YearsExperiences on the British FrontExperiences on the Italian FrontExperiences on the French FrontBreaking the Hindenburg LineThe Psychic QuestAppendix - Up to Date (1930)IllustrationsAn Essay on the TextApparatusAbbreviations used in the ApparatusEmendations and VariationsExplanatory Notes