The Ring of Thoth and Other Tales, wi..., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Ring of Thoth and Other Tales, wi..., Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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The Ring of Thoth and Other Tales, with eBook

Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Narrator: John Bolen

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/15/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

In "The Ring of Thoth," Mr. John Vansittart Smith, a British student of Egyptology, goes to the Egyptian Room of the Louvre to study. There he meets a curious looking attendant, but he is otherwise alone in the great hall. Not long afterwards, the quiet surroundings and his inability to concentrate cause him to drift off to sleep. When Smith wakes, it is the middle of the night and he is locked inside the darkened museum. Soon he becomes aware that someone else is there, too. A mysterious figure holding a light has come into the hall and opened the case of one of the mummies. Smith realizes that it is the attendant that he saw earlier in the day, and as he watches from the shadows, he becomes involved in the extraordinary story of the ring of Thoth.

In addition to "The Ring of Thoth," this collection of short stories by the masterful Arthur Conan Doyle contains "The Captain of the Polestar," "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement," "The Great Kleinplatz Experiment," "The Man from Archangel," "That Little Square Box," "John Huxford's Hiatus," "A Literary Mosaic," "John Barrington Cowles," and "Elias B. Hopkins."

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 Jon on March 04, 2023

Like 'proto' episodes of The Twilight Zone - crime, fantasy, horror and science fiction are well represented and masterfully plotted by this iconic writer. Of course everyone associates ACD with a certian detective; but he also had a very strong leaning towards the macabre. Wonderful tales that will......more

Goodreads review by Jim on June 03, 2017

I had enough interest to keep listening to this, but was never very engaged by any of the stories. The characters were flat. The situations took forever to set up & ended predictably. The writing style isn't really to my taste, but I overcame that with the Sherlock Holmes stories. These didn't hold......more

Goodreads review by Liz on April 30, 2021

These stories are mostly okay with nothing spectacular. I'm not a fan of the narrator's sing song cadence which can be distracting. Also there are some odd mispronunciations. The Captain of the Polestar. 2 stars. A long buildup to the story of a ship stuck in the frozen north. There are possible hal......more

Goodreads review by Marisa on July 29, 2012

Solo El Anillo de Thoth // Impresionante, me gusta!......more

Goodreads review by Željko on January 12, 2021

Various stories, a mixture of horror and fantasy.......more