Sir Nigel (Wordsworth Collection)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN 10: 1853262293 / ISBN 13: 9781853262296

Published by Wordsworth Edition, 1994

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Broschiert Guter Zustand, ohne Namenseintrag Zustand: 3, Gut - gebraucht, Broschiert Wordsworth Edition , 1994 , Sir Nigel (Wordsworth Collection), Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sir Nigel (Wordsworth Collection)
• Publisher: Wordsworth Edition
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853262293
• ISBN 13: 9781853262296
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Gut - gebraucht
• Seller catalogs:
  • Ratgeber

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Synopsis

Set in the middle of the 14th century, this work is a swashbuckling story of the eponymous hero, Nigel Loring, as he seeks his fortune and the hand of his lady-love in England and France in the early part of the Hundred Years War.

About the Author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle(22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was an Irish-Scots writer and physician, most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction.

He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction and historical novels.

Supported by wealthy uncles, Doyle was sent to the Jesuit preparatory school Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, at the age of nine (1868–70). He then went on to Stonyhurst College until 1875. From 1875 to 1876, he was educated at the Jesuit school Stella Matutina in Feldkirch, Austria.

From 1876 to 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh Medical School, including periods working in Aston (then a town in Warwickshire, now part of Birmingham), Sheffield and Ruyton-XI-Towns, Shropshire.

Doyle struggled to find a publisher for his work. His first work featuring Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, A Study in Scarlet, was taken by Ward Lock & Co on 20 November 1886, giving Doyle £25 (£2500 today) for all rights to the story. The piece appeared one year later in the Beeton's Christmas Annual and received good reviews in The Scotsman and the Glasgow Herald.

While living in Southsea, Doyle played football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side, under the pseudonym A. C. Smith.