Memories and Adventures, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Memories and Adventures, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Memories and Adventures

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: Robert Whitfield

Unabridged: 13 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/31/2011


Synopsis

I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it was to be a poor man and I have known what it was to be fairly affluent. I have sampled every kind of human experience. I have known many of the most remarkable men of my time. I have had a long literary career after a medical training which gave me the MD of Edinburgh.I have traveled as Doctor to a whaler for seven months in the Arctic and afterwards in the West Coast of Africa. I have seen something of three wars: the Sudanese, the South African, and the German. My life has been dotted with adventures of all kinds. Finally, I have been constrained to devote my latter years to telling the world the final result of thirtysix years study of the occult.Such is the life which I have told in some detail in my Memories and Adventures. Sir Arthur Conan 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 José

Siempre es un placer leer a Conan Doyle. Sus "Memorias y aventuras" nos hacen retroceder a esa época victoriana y post-vistoriana en la que se escribieron algunas de las mejores obras literarias, o al menos algunos de los relatos y novelas que más disfruto. La pena, que no se hable demasiado de nues......more

Goodreads review by Arthur

A 12 hour unabridged audiobook An autobiography of Doyle? Why not. One would expect a well known author to do a fine job at their own autobiography, and he has. This is a man who didnt just have a good imagination, he traveled the world and was an adventurer in his own right. I enjoyed listening to t......more

Goodreads review by Augusto

Que vida más interesante tuvo Arthur Conan Doyle, la verdad fue más que Holmes aunque Holmes sea más grande que el. Está claro que disfruto de la vida a lo máximo. Lo que hace interesante el libro es cuando habla de la guerra de los Boer y la primera guerra mundial, ya que estuvo en las dos. A su ve......more