Adventure, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Adventure, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Adventure
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Edgar Allan Poe

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe

Narrator: Various

Unabridged: 2 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/16/2023


Synopsis

Short Stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe
1) The Domain of Arnheim - Poe2) The Man from Arch Angel - Doyle3) The Adventures of Charles Augustus Milverton – Doyle

About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer whose works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays, romances, poetry, and nonfiction, is best known as the creator of the detective Sherlock Holmes. While Holmes was the embodiment of scientific thinking, Doyle himself did not exhibit the same rationality, believing in fairies and occultism. His Sherlock Holmes stories have been translated into more than fifty languages and have been made into plays, films, radio and television series, cartoons, and comic books. By 1920, Doyle was one of the most highly paid writers in the world. Other works by Doyle include The Lost World, the first book in the Professor Challenger series; The White Company, one of his many historical novels; and The Great Boer War.

Doyle was born at Picardy Place, near Edinburgh, in 1859. He was educated in Jesuit schools and studied at Edinburgh University. In 1884, he married Louise Hawkins. Doyle qualified as a doctor in 1885 and practiced medicine as an eye specialist in Hampshire until 1891, when he became a full-time writer. Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887 and introduced the detective's faithful associate, Dr. Watson.

During the Boer war in South Africa (1899-1902), Doyle served several months as the senior physician at a field hospital. There he wrote The War in South Africa, in which he expressed the imperial view. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Parliament but nevertheless was knighted in 1902. In 1907, fourteen months after his wife died, Doyle married Jean Leckie. After his son Kingsley died in the first World War, Doyle dedicated himself to spiritualistic studies at his home in Windlesham, Sussex. He died himself in 1930.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Petko on January 05, 2016

The book is intense and fast-paced; fun, relatively short, quick to read, interesting mostly because of the story itself and not so much for the characters in it, who hardly seem to go through any major development, and feel a bit flat (David is just a random dude who didn't stand out as anyone real......more

Goodreads review by Heather on June 01, 2019

Just in the knick of time, Joan Lackland arrived in the middle of a gale, fresh from the wreck of her beloved schooner, with a handful of buff Tahitian sailors, wearing a cowboy hat on her head, sea-boots on her feet, and a big gun on her hip. And the rest is the quintessence of adventure. What great......more

Goodreads review by Oguzcan on November 13, 2019

Kitabın ismi Macera olsa da son bölüme kadar pek macera barındırmayan Jack London kitabı bu sefer ki hikayesinde zenci insanlara köle gibi davranıp işkence altında oldukları için ırkçılık barındırdığı söylense de benim pek ırkçılık göremediğim bir kitaptır. Başka yayınevinden çıktı mı bilmiyorum ama......more

Goodreads review by Tansel on July 07, 2019

Kitabın adı macera ancak bir macerayı değil de macera kavramını üzerinde duruyor, bunun yanında bugün normal karşılayacağımız ama o zaman için aykırı olan özgür kadın olgusu işlenmiş. Tabi diğer romanlarında olduğu gibi 1900’lü yıllarda Solomon adalarında yerli işçiler ile hindistan cevizi yetiştiri......more

Goodreads review by Virginia on May 10, 2013

Being familiar with many of Jack London's more popular books (such as White Fang) I was intrigued by this swashbuckling adventure... as it turned out, an incredibly racist swashbuckling adventure. The basic premise is following the "Adventure" of a plantation owner in the Solomon islands in the late......more