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The Refugees

The Refugees

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Refugees (1893) is a historical novel by British writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It revolves around Amory de Catinat, a Huguenot guardsman of Louis XIV, and Amos Green, an American who comes to visit France. Major themes include Louis XIV's marriage to Madame de Maintenon, retirement from court of Madame de Montespan, the revoking of the Edict o..

Round the Red Lamp -  Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life is a collection of medical and detective stories by Arthur Conan Doyle published on 23 October 1894. The series was suggested to the author by Jerome K. Jerome then editor of The Idler. I quite recognise the force of your objection that an invalid or a woman in weak health would get no goo..

The German War

The German War

by Arthur Conan Doyle

These essays, upon different phases of the wonderful world-drama which has made our lifetime memorable, would be unworthy of republication were it not that at such a time every smallest thing which may help to clear up a doubt, to elucidate the justice of our cause, or to accentuate the desperate need of national effort, should be thrown into the s..

A Desert Drama -  Being The Tragedy Of The

A Desert Drama - Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897, and was later turned into a play Fires of Fate. A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in "a turtle-bottomed, round..

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago is a volume collecting 13 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1922 by John Murray. The stories covers various centuries from Antiquity to first millenary...

Rodney Stone

Rodney Stone

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. T..

The Stark Munro Letters

The Stark Munro Letters

by Arthur Conan Doyle

The Stark Munro Letters is a novel by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1895 by Longmans, Green & Co. in London, England. As an epistolary novel it takes the form of twelve long letters written by J. Stark Munro between March 1881 and November 1884 and sent to his friend Herbert Swanborough of Lowell, Massachusetts. Stark Mun..

The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates

The Dealings of Captain Sharkey, and Other Tales of Pirates

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Tales of Pirates and Blue Water is a volume collecting 12 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1925. The volume is divided in two parts: Tales of Pirates with stories of pirates, and Tales of Blue Water with stories of sea. The same content has been published previously in 1922 in Tales of Pirates and Blue Water by John Mu..