Arthur Conan Doyle

Born

in Edinburgh, Scotland

May 22, 1859

Died

July 07, 1930

Website

http://www.sherlockholmesonline.org/

Genre

Fiction, Crime, Thriller

Influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph McCabe, Jules Verne, Walter Scott, Thomas Babi ...more

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland. His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish. They were married in 1855.

Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname (if that is how he meant it to be understood) is uncertain. His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname. It also names Michael Conan as his godfather.

At the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst. He then went on to St ...more

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Arthur Conan Doyle’s books

Average rating: 4.2 · 1,847,227 ratings · 60,579 reviews · 3,930 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) 4.16 avg rating — 308,075 ratings — published 1887 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hound of the Baskervilles 4.12 avg rating — 241,310 ratings — published 1901 — 4024 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4.31 avg rating — 232,944 ratings — published 1892 — 121 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes 4.51 avg rating — 166,122 ratings — published 1927 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Sherlock Holmes: Volume II by Arthur Conan Doyle, Kyle Freeman (Contributor) 4.47 avg rating — 77,070 ratings — published 1914 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sign of Four (Sherlock Holmes, #2) 3.94 avg rating — 100,210 ratings — published 1890 — 2395 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Christopher Roden (Editor) , Owen Dudley Edwards (Series Editor) 4.32 avg rating — 78,648 ratings — published 1894 — 1816 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Lost World (Professor Challenger, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 53,760 ratings — published 1912 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Return of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #6) by Arthur Conan Doyle, Angus Wilson (Foreword) , Richard Lancelyn Green (Editor) , Owen Dudley Edwards (Series Editor) 4.31 avg rating — 50,131 ratings — published 1904 — 70 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	His Last Bow (Sherlock Holmes, #8) 4.28 avg rating — 35,178 ratings — published 1913 — 1035 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sherlock Holmes (9 books)
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Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

tags: inspirational

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“It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle

tags: books, humor

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“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery

tags: deception, detection, evidence, facts, obviousness, sherlock-holmes

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Polls

July 2015 Revisit the Shelf, Group Reread

1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages

12 votes, 26.7%

1872, Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne, 252 pages

8 votes, 17.8%

1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 351 pages

6 votes, 13.3%

1815, Emma by Jane Austen, 474 pages

6 votes, 13.3%

1844, The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas, 786 pages

5 votes, 11.1%

1932, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, 268 pages

4 votes, 8.9%

1957, Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 513 pages

2 votes, 4.4%

1887, A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, 108 pages

2 votes, 4.4%

45 total votes

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