- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Harvill Secker (2 Oct 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0436206137
- ISBN-13: 978-0436206139
- Product Dimensions: 16.2 x 3.3 x 24.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 563,490 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`[a] judicious and entertaining biography'
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`useful general introduction to new readers of Conan Doyle'
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is easily the most readable Conan Doyle biography since "Teller of Tales" by Daniel Stashower. Andrew Lycett's slightly earlier biography is, in my opinion, richer on details but is a lot harder to wade through.
The only reason that I have not given five stars is that Miller is guilty of some silly errors. He gets the number of Sherlock Holmes stories wrong and, by omitting certain details, he creates an inaccurate impression of where Conan Doyle was at certain periods of his life.
Miller's book is good but should not be your sole Conan Doyle reference. It will serve you best if you have other books (such as Andrew Lycett's) to plug the gaps that he leaves.
The only reason that I have not given five stars is that Miller is guilty of some silly errors. He gets the number of Sherlock Holmes stories wrong and, by omitting certain details, he creates an inaccurate impression of where Conan Doyle was at certain periods of his life.
Miller's book is good but should not be your sole Conan Doyle reference. It will serve you best if you have other books (such as Andrew Lycett's) to plug the gaps that he leaves.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a very well constucted biography of a giant in popular literature. I cannot recommend it highly enough. The adventures of the writer become as exciting as the works he wrote. His later self delusion in the spiritualist movement, gets poignant payback. I read it with great pleasure. Informative and entertaining.Buy it.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Russell Miller's The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle is a compulsive read about the author who will always be associated with fiction's best known detective Sherlock Holmes. The biography contains surprising new material which is skillfully weaved into what could have been a routine narrative. Until I read this fascinating book I was unaware how slapdash Conan Doyle often was. Miller points out how some of Doyle's Holmes stories were carelessly written and riddled with inconsistencies. He is also very good on Doyle's personal life and writes touchingly about his honourable decision to remain married to his consumptive first wife Touie, despite having fallen deeply in love with a woman 16 years his junior, whom he eventually married after Touie had died. The biography is also very enlightening on Doyle's championship of those he considered to have been victims of injustice. But as Miller tells us Doyle was not without flaws. In later life his energetic support for the spiritualist movement harmed his reputation. To sum up : this is a revealing and sympathetic portrait of an exceptional man.
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A very worthwhile biography
A year after Andrew Lycett's "Conan Doyle: The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes" comes "The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle" by Russell Miller - prompting the question: Do we... Read more
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A fascinating and revealing depiction of Conan Doyle
As an avid fan of Sherlock Holmes, I was excited to read this new biography of his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. Read more
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