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The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle serves Conan Doyle's growing reputation as a significant force in the literature of Scotland, the English language and the world. For the first time, the volume provides students, enthusiasts and researchers with everything needed for a serious appreciation of Memories and Adventures, the autobiography of Conan Doyle's life in literature, medicine, travel, politics, war, sport and spiritualism. This scholarly edition includes: - A collation of four versions of the book including manuscripts - An introduction giving the history of the book's composition, publication, revision, and reception, placing it in personal, historical and literary contexts - A full textual apparatus, showing all significant emendations and variations - Ample explanatory notes, including data on the hundreds of historical figures and events mentioned in the book. Douglas Kerr is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Honorary Professor of English and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong.
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Douglas Kerr is Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and former Professor of English and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of
Conan Doyle: Writing, Profession, and Practice (Oxford UP, 2013),
Eastern Figures: Orient and Empire in British Writing (Hong Kong UP, 2008),
George Orwell (Writers and their Work series, 2003), and
Wilfred Owen's Voices: Language and Community (Oxford UP, 1993).
Summary
For the first time, the volume provides students, enthusiasts and researchers with everything needed for a serious appreciation of Memories and Adventures, the autobiography of Conan Doyle's life in literature, medicine, travel, politics, war, sport and spiritualism.
