Teller of Tales (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Daniel Stashower
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1859-1930
- Setting: Great Britain
- Principal Characters: Arthur Conan Doyle, Jean Doyle
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Folkloric or magical people, Politics, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Spiritual life or spirituality, Detectives, Great Britain, Fairies
- Locales: Great Britain
Arthur Conan Doyle is best remembered as the creator of the fictional “consulting detective” Sherlock Holmes and as the author of sixty mysteries featuring that character. This is no small honor, as Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories have been popular with readers for more than one hundred years. The character of Holmes is almost universally recognized throughout the English- speaking world and beyond, with the stories translated into dozens of languages and Holmes’s image appearing in newspaper advertisements and cartoons, on playing cards, as figurines, and through other media....
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