

Beyond the City, with eBook
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Shelly Frasier
Unabridged: 3 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/24/2009
Includes:
Bonus Material
Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Narrator: Shelly Frasier
Unabridged: 3 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 08/24/2009
Includes:
Bonus Material
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.
Focusing on the lives of three families in Victorian London, Doyle gives s fascinating insight into what life was like in the 19th century.......more
Funny or strange, the Romanian editor (Aldo Press) tricked me, as the cover of the book is about Sherlock Holmes and he's not part of the story. Anyway, that's an interesting one, at least because it shows Doyle's style in a novel not involving any detective. It looks more like Charles Dickens.........more
Kind of a soap opera set around 1900 in England. I'm sure there was more to the subtext than I got, but I got enough to make it interesting, even enjoyable for all Doyle's somewhat stilted style. There was a theme of moving to the suburbs where life is better than the horrible city. A rich man's land......more
(view spoiler)[I would never have suspected Doyle of choosing to write such a gentle romance. I half suspected that he would spring some dastardly crime on us just for a shocker, but what a wonderful surprise when instead it really was just a sweet story of friendship and loyalty. (hide spoiler)] I know you shouldn’t start out w......more
Excellent and quite modern slice of life from around the turn of the 20th century. The characters are so rich and they drive the book. I got what I feel is a better glimpse of Conan Doyle than through Sherlock or other books that I also loved like the White Company, a rollicking (what a great review......more