Arthur Conan Doyle - The Parasite: "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained." (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781780006079)

Add to this canon his stories of science fiction and his poems, his historical novels, his plays, his political campaigning, his efforts in establishing a Court of Appeal and there is little room for anything else. Except he was also an exceptional writer of short stories of the horrific and macabre. Something very different from what you might expect. Born in Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 at 11 Picardy Place, Edinburgh, Scotland. From 1876 - 1881 he studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh following which he was employed as a doctor on the Greenland whaler Hope of Peterhead in 1880 and, after his graduation, as a ship's surgeon on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast in 1881.

Arriving in Portsmouth in June of that year with less than 10 ( 700 today) to his name, he set up a medical practice at 1 Bush Villas in Elm Grove, Southsea. The practice was initially not very successful. While waiting for patients, Conan Doyle again began writing stories and composed his first novel The Mystery of Cloomber. Although he continued to study and practice medicine his career was now firmly set as a writer. And thereafter great works continued to pour out of him.

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN-10: 1780006071
ISBN-13: 9781780006079
Publisher: Miniature Masterpieces
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2018
Pages: 38
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.14lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d