The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Annotated) (Summit Classic Collector Editions)

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A E W Mason. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Home Contact Us Help Free delivery worldwide. Description With a large 7. Page headers and modern design and page layout exemplify the attention to detail given this collector-quality volume. Original content created specially for this edition includes a detailed author biography, a detailed bibliography of Alcott's work -- both her well-known works and the little-known "potboiler" stories originally published anonymously or under pen names -- and footnote annotations, added sparingly, to aid the modern reader with particularly unusual or outdated words or phrases.

Since its publication "Little Women" has been a perennial favorite. Based on her experiences growing up with her sisters, Louisa May Alcott's tale was originally published as two separate short novels, "Little Women, or Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy" in and "Good Wives" in This Summit Classics edition follows the subsequent practice of including those two works as "Part One" and "Part Two" in a single volume titled "Little Women.

While based to some extent on her own experiences and family, the book is not strictly autobiographical.

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The heroine, Jo, for example is based on Alcott herself, but Alcott never married and the school eventually run by Jo and her husband is most likely based on her father's ultimately unsuccessful school. Born in in Germantown Pennsylvania, Alcott's parents were members of the Transcendentalist movement. The family was generally on the brink of poverty, as her father founded a school that failed and them moved his family to a utopian commune which also failed. Political campaigning Following the Boer War in South Africa at the turn of the 20th century and the condemnation from around the world over the United Kingdom's conduct, Conan Doyle wrote a short pamphlet titled The War in South Africa: Conan Doyle believed it was this pamphlet that resulted in his being knighted in and appointed Deputy-Lieutenant of Surrey.

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Also in he wrote the longer book, The Great Boer War. During the early years of the 20th century, Sir Arthur twice ran for Parliament as a Liberal Unionist Conan Doyle was involved in the campaign for the reform of the Congo Free State, led by journalist E. Morel and diplomat Roger Casement.

During he wrote The Crime of the Congo , a long pamphlet in which he denounced the horrors in that country. He became acquainted with Morel and Casement, and it is possible that, together with Bertram Fletcher Robinson, they inspired several characters in the novel The Lost World.

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He broke with both when Morel became one of the leaders of the pacifist movement during the First World War, and when Casement was convicted of treason against the UK during the Easter Rising. Conan Doyle tried unsuccessfully to save Casement from the death penalty, arguing that he had been driven mad and was not responsible for his actions. Correcting miscarriages of justice Conan Doyle was also a fervent advocate of justice and personally investigated two closed cases, which led to two men being exonerated of the crimes of which they were accused.

The first case, in , involved a shy half-British, half-Indian lawyer named George Edalji who had allegedly penned threatening letters and mutilated animals.

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Police were set on Edalji's conviction, even though the mutilations continued after their suspect was jailed. It was partially as a result of this case that the Court of Criminal Appeal was established in , so not only did Conan Doyle help George Edalji, his work helped establish a way to correct other miscarriages of justice. Edalji himself was a Parsee. The second case, that of Oscar Slater, a German Jew and gambling-den operator convicted of bludgeoning an year-old woman in Glasgow in , excited Conan Doyle's curiosity because of inconsistencies in the prosecution case and a general sense that Slater was not guilty.

He ended up paying most of the costs for Slater's successful appeal in Spiritualism Following the death of his wife Louisa in , the death of his son Kingsley just before the end of World War I, and the deaths of his brother Innes, his two brothers-in-law one of whom was E. Hornung, creator of the literary character Raffles and his two nephews shortly after the war, Conan Doyle sank into depression. He found solace supporting spiritualism and its attempts to find proof of existence beyond the grave. In particular, according to some, he favoured Christian Spiritualism and encouraged the Spiritualists' National Union to accept an eighth precept - that of following the teachings and example of Jesus of Nazareth.

He also was a member of the renowned paranormal organisation The Ghost Club. Its focus, then and now, is on the scientific study of alleged paranormal activities in order to prove or refute the existence of paranormal phenomena.

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On 28 October Kingsley Doyle died from pneumonia, which he contracted during his convalescence after being seriously wounded during the Battle of the Somme. Brigadier-General Innes Doyle died, also from pneumonia, in February Sir Arthur became involved with Spiritualism to the extent that he wrote a Professor Challenger novel on the subject, The Land of Mist. His book The Coming of the Fairies shows he was apparently convinced of the veracity of the five Cottingley Fairies photographs which decades later were exposed as a hoax.

He reproduced them in the book, together with theories about the nature and existence of fairies and spirits. His work on this topic was one of the reasons that one of his short-story collections, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , was banned in the Soviet Union in for supposed occultism. This ban was later lifted. Conan Doyle was friends for a time with Harry Houdini, the American magician who himself became a prominent opponent of the Spiritualist movement in the s following the death of his beloved mother.

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Although Houdini insisted that Spiritualist mediums employed trickery and consistently exposed them as frauds , Conan Doyle became convinced that Houdini himself possessed supernatural powers Houdini was apparently unable to convince Conan Doyle that his feats were simply illusions, leading to a bitter public falling out between the two.

Richard Milner, an American historian of science, has presented a case that Conan Doyle may have been the perpetrator of the Piltdown Man hoax of , creating the counterfeit hominid fossil that fooled the scientific world for over 40 years. Milner says that Conan Doyle had a motive Samuel Rosenberg's book Naked is the Best Disguise purports to explain how, throughout his writings, Conan Doyle left open clues that related to hidden and suppressed aspects of his mentality.

He died of a heart attack at age His last words were directed toward his wife: It was then bought by a developer, and has since been empty while conservationists and Conan Doyle fans fight to preserve it. Study in Scarlet [Heritage of Lit. Annotated Sherlock Holmes Hardcover.

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