Through the Magic Door

There is something about listening to a writer gush (this was an audiobook) about the books he owns that absolutely gives me my yayas. I suspect that many Goodreads readers might enjoy this book simply because Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was clearly one of us (an avid reader) as he communicates the circu......more

No importa lo humilde que sea tu estantería, ni lo modesta que sea la habitación que adorna. Cierra la puerta, acalla todas las cuestiones del mundo exterior, sumérgete de nuevo en la tranquilizadora compañía de los muertos insignes, y entonces atravesarás el portal mágico de aquellos dominios do......more

Como apuntan los propios editores en la contraportada del libro, "Cruzando la puerta mágica" es una pequeña joya olvidada -en un ameno estilo conversacional- que nos adentra en el mundo imaginativo del creador de Sherlock Holmes. Una maravilla, que por fin, más de un siglo después, podemos disfrutar......more

I was swept up immediately. As I continued, I realized how far I have to go to be considered well read. Intrigued, inspired, and feeling as if I found my kindred spirit in a man long dead I made a resolution to escape through the magic door at every chance.......more

Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Through the Magic Door” was serialized in 1906-07 when he was 48. His famous Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in The Strand Magazine 1891-93 (with the supposed death of the great detective at Reichenbach Falls) and 1901-27. The book was very revealing – not only to see what boo......more