The Speckled Band and Lamb to the slaughter :: English Literature

Discussing The Speckled Band and Lamb to the slaughter.British writer, creator operative Holmes, the best-known detective inliterature and the embodiment of sharp reasoning. Doyle himself was non a good example of rational personality he believed in fairies andwas interested in occultism. Sherlock Holmes stories have beentranslated into more than fifty languages, and do into plays, films,radio and television series, a musical comedy, a ballet, cartoons,comic books, and advertisement. By 1920 Doyle was one of the mosthighly paid writers in the world.--This is indeed a mystery, I remarked. What do you imagine that itmeans?--I have no entropy yet. It is a capital mistake to theorise before onehas data. insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories,instead of theories to suit facts...--(from A Scandal in Bohemia, 1891)Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place, Edinburgh, as the son ofCharles Altamont Doyle, a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office ofWorks, and Mary (Foley) Doyle. Both of Doyles parents were roman lettersCatholics. To increase his income Charles Altamont painted, do bookillustrations, and also worked as a sketch artist on criminal trials.Not long after arriving Edinburgh he started to drink, he sufferedfrom epilepsy and was ultimately institutionalized. Doyles mother wasinterested in literature, and she encouraged his son to take to books.Doyle order voluminously. At the age of fourteen he had learned Frenchso that he read Jules Verne in the authors original language. by and byDoyles second wife, Jean, express My husbands mother was a veryremarkable and highly cultured woman. She had a dominant personality,wrapped up on the most charming womanlike exterior. Charles Altamotdied in an asylum in 1893 in the same year Doyle fixed to finishpermanently the adventures of his master detective. Because offinancial problems, Doyles mother kept a boarding house. Dr. TsukasaKobayashi has alluded in an article, that Doyles mother had a lon gaffair with Bryan Charles Waller, a lodger and a student of pathology,who had a deep impact to Conan Doyle.Doyle was ameliorate in Jesuit schools. During this period Doyle losthis belief in the Roman Catholic faith but the training of the Jesuitsinfluenced deeply his mental development. Later he used his friendsand teachers from Stonyhurst College as models for his characters inthe Holmes stories, among them two boys named Moriarty. He examine atEdinburgh University and in 1884 he married Louise Hawkins. Doylequalified as restore in 1885. After graduation Doyle practiced medicineas an inwardness specialist at Southsea near Porsmouth in Hampshire until1891 when he became a sound time writer.