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This paper discusses British writer, Arthur Conan Doyle and his most famous work, "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes". The author describes the several people in Doyle's life who influenced his style of writing: his mother, his teacher in medical school, Dr. Joseph Bell and Doyle's wife. The paper also examines how Doyle's literary career took a turn when he killed off his Sherlock Holmes character.

From the Paper
"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, written by Arthur Doyle, is a popular piece of work that is read and enjoyed by many. Countless individuals enjoy how the detective cracks cases and solves mysteries. Some may even consider these stories to be classics as many remember and share them with others. Several individuals who read Arthur's works report that their interest is grabbed and that they can't put the books down. There are several people in his life who have influenced his style of writing of which three will be discussed."

Tags:literature, author

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The paper examines how the detective stories of Edgar Allan Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle use newspapers as a vehicle for narrative description that is defined for their readership.

Tags:doyle, poe, newspapers

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This paper examines Howard Engel's "Mr. Doyle and Dr. Bell" and Laurie R. King's " A Letter of Mary", which both make attempts to add to the Sherlockian canon. This paper analyzes the narrator, protagonist and setting of each novel, comparing them to Doyle's template, and then discuss briefly which is the more meritorious addition to the repertory.

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The following paper discusses how Doyle and "Sherlock Holmes" entertained generations of readers with the pure delight of escapist detective fiction, paired with the historical diaries and documents written by actual "bobbies" of the day. The writer examines how these famous detective stories give us a vivid picture of how both an author and his major character were shaped by the time, the conditions and the crime of their days.

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"When people moved from farming to city and industrial jobs, change came in the ways workers were compensated, in their levels of independence from, or interdependence on, their neighbors, and, probably most noticeable of all, in the sheer amount of space each man could call his own or maybe more precisely, the lack of space. Many of the teeming crowds in London's streets in the nineteenth century were made up of people living in dire poverty. And all too many were far too familiar with the dark side to this new form of civilization: the rise of more, and different, forms of crime."

Tags:London, newspapers, pickpockets, larceny, robbery, indoors, officials, police, government, political

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The paper examines the visual iconography, literary character development and sequential timeline in "The Chronicles of Conan, Vol.1". The paper describes how the fictional character, Conan of Cimmeria, was originally created through a literary medium, but was made more accessible and more famous by creating an association with visual iconography.

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"The classic pulp sword and sorcery novels of Robert E. Howard have resulted in film, comics, and other modern media formats that describe his most famous barbarian character: Conan of Cimmeria. In many ways, the comic book industry has brought the Conan character to greater fame, as Howard's actual novels did not sell well before being visually interpreted. In 1971, the comic book illustrator Barry Windsor Smith artistically interpreted the Conan figure within a certain medium that stood outside the literature that Howard wrote, especially with the greater visual presence of his drawings that gave life to the Conan character."

Tags:Conan, of, Cimmeria, illustrations, iconography, literarature

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The paper asserts that the three concepts of visual iconography, literary character development, and sequential timeline are important factors in understanding the importance of the comic book medium in the modern media. The paper looks at how "Chronicles of Conan, Vol.1" by Robert E. Howard helps to define a fictional character that was originally created through a literary medium, but was made more accessible (and even more famous) by creating an association with visual iconography to expand on the writings of Robert E. Howard.

Tags:conan, howard, smith

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This paper examines how Arthur Conan Doyle's two stories "Scandal in Bohemia" and "The Adventure of the Yellow Face" are very interesting in their treatment of the female protagonists, as they reflect the condition and the image of women at the end of the nineteenth century.

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"In the other story, The Adventure of the Yellow Face, Holmes is again outwitted by a woman. This time Holmes fails deciphering the thinking of the woman who hides her little black girl from her old marriage from her husband. He wrongfully concludes after finding out the facts, that she actually hides her husband who is supposed to have been dead. Again, he is fails to read the woman's mind, who proves to have act much better than he supposes. Thus, both stories point to the way in which the nineteenth century men regarded cleverness in women as an absolute exception, and therefore, as Holmes terms it, any smart woman would be called "the woman": "He used to make merry over the cleverness of women, but I have not heard him do it of late. "

Tags:irene, adler, victorian, society

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This paper explains that poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe gave birth to the genre of mystery and detective story-telling, popularized through his character Auguste Dupin, who is considered the first detective character to demonstrate the disciplines of deduction and logical thinking in solving the mysteries and crimes that plague society; Conan Doyle's fictional detective character, the well-known Sherlock Holmes, exhibited similar characteristics. The author compares Poe and Doyle's literary works based on their use of stereotyping and pattern-formation (logos), ethos and establishment of pathos as rhetorical techniques in which they solve mystery cases. This paper relates that Dupin's character was portrayed in the most eccentric light as possible by Poe, perhaps giving him a single commonality with the readers through his poverty; in proving Holmes credible to solve the mysteries of English society, Doyle also utilized the character of eccentricity as the most salient points of Holmes' character.

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"Dupin's solution to the murders at the Rue Morgue was based on a stereotype and pattern found in the facts available about the case. Pattern formation was apparent in his analysis of the witnesses' accounts of the events before, during, and after the murder. His discovery that each witness's testimony reflected the fact that "[e]ach likens it (the voice heard)-not to the voice of an individual of any nation...but the converse," a point that led him to conclude that the murderer was of an 'alien' nature, someone who does not speak the language of any of the nationalities of the witnesses."

Tags:ethos, logos, pathos, eccentricity, sherlock-holmes

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This paper discusses and analyzes the famous fictional detective created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, and the belief, held by many critics, that the character of Holmes was based on an actual acquaintance of Doyle. Through an examination of some of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, the method Holmes used to solve crimes, the antagonists in the stories and the character of Sherlock Holmes, the paper explains just why many critics believe that Doyle based the character of Sherlock Holmes on one of his true life doctor friends.

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"Sherlock Holmes, while not the first popular fictional detective (that honor surely goes to Poe's Arsene Lupin) was surely the character that has outlasted the Victorian times in which his adventures were first written by Arthur Conan Doyle. What makes the character still so viable, including the popular movies of the 1930s and 1940s with Basil Rathbone as Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson, and the popular British television series featuring the late Jeremy Brett as Holmes; is that this is not "find the murderer" as in the stories of Dashiell Hammett and Ellery Queen and Agatha Christie (among others), but a series of deductive reasonings, focusing on facts the police overlooked or disregarded. In Holmes stories, including "The Blanched Soldier", and "The Sign of the Four", Holmes is quoted as saying "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." Unlike many modern mysteries there is neither a "red herring" nor what Alfred Hitchcock referred to as a "Maguffin"- a somewhat obvious but, in the end, misleading clue. There is seldom a twist or quirk in the Holmes stories. And, there is seldom even violence or confrontation between Holmes and "the guys who done it"."

Tags:original, joseph, bell, doctors, deducing, surgery, reichenbach, falls, edinburgh, villains

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This paper reviews the literary work, "The Hound of the Baskervilles", written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The paper presents the unique technique employed by the writer in writing this book. The story is more than a mystery, and it is more than a gothic tale; it is a wonderful combination of both. The paper explores how Doyle utilizes the sense of the mysterious and supernatural to work against Holmes's natural inclinations, which adds to the suspense of the novel. In addition, the paper explains how Doyle is making a social commentary about gender and class with the characters and situations presented. The paper contends that by merging these different elements in the novel, Doyle creates a fantastic adventure that keeps the reader engaged until the very end.

From the Paper
"Doyle builds suspense in a traditional gothic style early in the novel with the tale of the family curse, the mysterious creature, and the setting of the story. In the document, we learn the mysterious creature is something almost completely indescribable. We read that it was "a foul thing, a great, black beast, shaped like a hound, yet larger than any hound that ever mortal eye has rested upon" (Chapter 2). Doyle foreshadows the mystery of Baskerville with dark, mysterious surroundings. For example, we read that "Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a gray, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream" (Chapter 6). In addition, Baskerville Hall is described with an air of mystery."

Tags:sherlock, holmes, detective