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Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)

by Andrew Lycett (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 568 pages
  • Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (30 Aug 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0297848526
  • ISBN-13: 978-0297848523
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.6 x 5.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 226,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Boston Globe and Mail

"Lycett uses the new material well to draw conclusions about Conan Doyle's character"


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"(An) excellent biography.. Comprehensive and authoritative, it is undoubtedly the best account of Doyle to date" (John Carey SUNDAY TIMES )

"thoroughly satisfying" (Frances Wilson NEW STATESMEN )

"In Andrew Lycett's hugely enjoyable new biography, the sheer breathtaking dynamism of the man shines through" (Philip Hoare SUNDAY TELEGRAPH )

"Conan Doyle has found a biographer of distinction in Andrew Lycett." (Giles Foden THE GUARDIAN )

"Shrewd and thorough.. entertaining" (DJ Taylor THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY )

"(Conan Doyle's) other writing will be read because of Holmes and better understood as a result of Lycett's brilliant analysis" (Geoffrey Elborn SUNDAY HERALD )

"a serious piece of work by an experienced professional biographer.. particularly good on the intelliectual background to Doyle's work" (The Economist )

"Andrew Lycett's genuis as a biographer matches Holmes's as a detective" (Newsletter of Sherlock Holmes Society of London )

"admirable clarity and fairness... (the book) must surely, at this juncture, become the standard biography" (The Tablet )

"Lycett's sophisticated account reveals a character with light and shade" (The Daily Telegraph )

"Lycett's book has the effect of moving Conan Doyle into our age" (Scottish Review of Books )

"Marvellous.. by far the most comprehensive biography of the man to date" (The Fortean Times )

"This is a model biography: lucid, fair and unfailingly readable" (Mail on Sunday )

"authoritative" (The International Herald Tribune )

"Scrupulous, authoritative" (Asian Age )

"Lycett uses the new material well to draw conclusions about Conan Doyle's character" (Boston Globe and Mail )
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Conan Doyle: the antithesis of Mr Holmes?, 19 Nov 2007
Mary Cable the American writer said that the best biographies leave their readers with a sense of having all but entered into a second life and of having come to know another human being in some ways better than he knew himself and Andrew Lycett's biography of Arthur Conan Doyle is no exception to this rule. If, as I do, you like to truly understand the subject and his or her antecedents then this is the book for you. As with his biographies of Dylan Thomas and Rudyard Kipling, Lycett has managed to delve deep into an already well researched subject to find even more information about Conan Doyle. Information that may reinforce your admiration for the creator of Sherlock Holmes or, and do be warned, may diminish it. Whatever the outcome you will not be disappointed by this excellent biography.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A hugely informative biography, 1 Jan 2009
This review is from: Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes (Paperback)
Conan Doyle was the creator of one of the great literary icons, a successful doctor, fascinated by spiritaulism and contact with the undead. He was both a keen sportsman and a brave journalist, travelling to conflict zones to report and to transcribe his own versions of events. In this biography, Andrew Lycett explores the complexities of this remarkable Scottish writer and shows how the writer could campaign proudly against injustice yet treat his wife and children harshly.

Lycett explores Arthur's difficlt relationship with his alcoholic father and his sympathy for his mother. We learn of the inspirational teachers who shaped his studies as a doctor and how they may have influenced the development of some of his most famous characters. We appreciate the speed and fluency of his writing and how he would often use his skills as a patriotic tool, how his interest in writing was stimulated by his ambition to write detailed historical works that demonstrated his research and mastery of his subject and how his detective novels and adventure stories paid the bills.

Having read this biography, it's difficult to admire the man himself or really to discern what the writer feels about him. Much of this is down to Lycett's skills in presenting what seems to be a detailed and objective portrayal. In his notes, he records the frustrations caused by Doyle's estate and the fact that many quotations have been removed may mean that we are not able to access as full a representation of this remarkable figure as the writer intended. I would like to have learnt more about contemporary responses to his writing and for a fuller discussion of his development as a poet and a dramatist.

I would suggest this biography is mainly successful as it does leave me wanting to learn more about Arthur Conan-Doyle however I do feel it is much more successful as an account of his life than of his literary works.
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10 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Masterly, 15 Sep 2007
The Sunday Times' review of Andrew Lycett's biography of Doyle says it all: 'the best we are likely to get.' Although it doesn't offer much in the way of news, I was pleased to see that Doyle's spat with the slippery Harry Price, the subject of my own biography, is covered and that Andrew has used my take on Doyle's relationship with HP.
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