One Hundred World's Best Novels Condensed

David Copperfield to Quo Vadis, Don Quixote to The War of the Worlds — a hundred of the world's great novels, each condensed to a brisk summary with its author's life story, as read in 1919.

Conan Doyle

2 pages in this part of 100 Best Novels Condensed.

Conan Doyle (SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE)

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, and died on July 8, 1930. His father, Charles Doyle, was an artist of…

Conan Doyle (SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE) (II)

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE was known everywhere and to everybody as the creator of Sherlock Holmes. He once said that he wished America might…

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