Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters
- ISBN-10
- 0007247605
- ISBN-13
- 9780007247608
- Series
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Category
- Authors, Scottish
- Pages
- 710
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperCollins UK
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Description
These remarkably candid and previously unpublished letters between Arthur Conan Doyle and his mother, dating from 1867 until her death in 1921, paint a fascinating portrait of one of Britain's most beloved authors and a complex man who both embodied and defied the conventions of his time.
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