Railroads
Railroads

Author: Charlton Ogburn

Publisher:

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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Historical account of the growth of the railroad and it's influence on American history.

Dream Seekers
Dream Seekers

Author: Loree Lough

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9780791050439

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When twelve-year-old Phillip and his sister move with their parents from Plymouth to Boston in 1634, they encounter mysterious Indians and survive narrow escapes.

Masters of Prose - Arthur Conan Doyle
Masters of Prose - Arthur Conan Doyle

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Tacet Books

Published: 2020-06-27

Total Pages: 1748

ISBN-13: 3969445353

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Welcome to the Masters of Prose book series, a selection of the best works by noteworthy authors.Literary critic August Nemo selects the most important writings of each author. A selection based on the author's novels, short stories, letters, essays and biographical texts. Thus providing the reader with an overview of the author's life and work.This edition is dedicated to the British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, a writer and medical doctor. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 when he published A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and more than fifty short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Doyle was a prolific writer; other than Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.This book contains the following writings:Novels: The Hound of the Baskervilles; Study In Scarlet; The Lost World; Rodney Stone; A Scandal In Bohemia; The Sign of the Four.Short Stories: The Five Orange Pips; The Disintegration Machine; When the World Screamed; The Great Keinplatz Experiment; The Horror of the Heights; The Ring of Thoth; The Brazilian Cat.Biographical: Memories and Adventures, an autobiography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.If you appreciate good literature, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity
Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity

Author: Diana Barsham

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-12-05

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1351956957

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A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography, Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes themed on the subject of masculinity and its representation. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle's career in the context of that nineteenth-century biographical tradition which Dr Watson so successfully appropriated. It explores Doyle's determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project. A Scotsman with an alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late Victorian masculinity. As novelist, war correspondent, historian, legal campaigner, propagandist and religious leader, he used his fame as the creator of Sherlock Holmes to refigure the spirit of British Imperialism. This original and thought-provoking study offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a series of dialoguic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill to define the masculine presence in British culture. In his spiritualist campaign, Doyle took on the figure of St Paul in an attempt to create a new religious culture for a Socialist age.