Written by Arthur Conan Doyle
Round the Fire Stories
by Arthur Conan DoyleRound the Fire Stories is a volume collecting 17 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1908 by Smith, Elder & Co. (UK), and the same year by McClure (US). As Conan Doyle wrote in his preface, this volume include stories concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible...
Danger! and Other Stories
by Arthur Conan DoyleDanger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection's title story, "Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius", was written 18 months before the outbreak of World War I and first published in the Strand Magazine in July 1914. It depicts an imaginary country in Europe fighting - an..
Sir Nigel
by Arthur Conan DoyleSir Nigel is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356, by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and written in 1906. It is the background story to Doyle's earlier novel The White Company, and describes the early life of that book's hero Nigel Loring, a knight in the service of King Edw..
Micah Clarke
by Arthur Conan DoyleMicah Clarke is a historical adventure novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1889 and set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 in England. The book is a bildungsroman whose protagonist, Micah Clarke, begins as a boy seeking adventure in a rather romantic and naive way, falls under the influence of an older and vastly experienced..
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales is a volume collecting 10 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published by Longmans, Green & Co. on 6 march 1890. This morning I saw a star twinkling just over the fore-yard, the first since the beginning of May. There is considerable discontent among the crew, many of whom are anxious to ge..
The Parasite - A Story
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Parasite is an 1894 novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilroy. He studies physiology and knows a professor who is studying the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa, who has a crippled leg and psychic powers. She is a friend of the Professor's wife. ..
The Wanderings of a Spiritualist
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Wanderings of a Spiritualist is an essay written by Arthur Conan Doyle first serialized in the Weekly Dispatch from 29 may to 10 july 1921 and published as a book on 2 september 1921 by Hodder & Stoughton Ltd...
The Crime of the Congo
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Crime of the Congo is a 1909 book by British writer and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, about human rights abuses in the Congo Free State, a private state established and controlled by the King of the Belgians, Leopold II. The book was intended as an expos? of the situation in the so-called Congo Free State (labelled a "rubber regime" by Cona..