Презентация на тему Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

medicine
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22, 1859
Studied medicine

at the University of Edinburgh (where he met Dr. Joseph Bell)

later committed to an insane asylum
He had a special

bond with his mom:
“In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories she would tell me stand out so clearly …”
“My mother had been so splendid that I could not fail her.”

him to go to boarding school
Athletic: cricket, football/soccer, sailing
Smart:

“He was often found, surrounded by a bevy of totally enraptured younger students, listening to the amazing stories he would make up to amuse them.”
SURPRISE! He decides to go to medical school.

was moderately successful
In his down time, he continued writing stories…

had 2 children.
She died of TB in 1906.
Married Jean

Leckie in 1907 … after meeting her in 1897
They had 3 children: Denis, Adrian, & Lena Jean
He spoke his last words to her: “You are wonderful.”

War, and was knighted in 1902
Wrote many historical articles

and nonfiction works

his home in East Sussex, England
Died of heart attack

on July, 7, 1930, aged 71
Tombstone in New Forest, Hampshire reads:
STEEL TRUE
BLADE STRAIGHT
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
KNIGHT
PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS

stories
Originally published short stories monthly in the Strand Magazine
1st

novel, 1886: A Study in Scarlet, including Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson
1st book of short stories (12): The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , in 1892
2nd collection: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, in 1894
“The Speckled Band” was written in 1907 and performed as a successful play

on Conan Doyle’s medical professor, Dr. Joseph Bell -

gifted at observation, logic, deduction, and diagnosis
Lived at 221B Baker Street, London
Many readers thought Holmes was REAL!

intelligence
Foil

Conan Doyle grew tired of Holmes and wanted to

spend his time with more “important” work - so he killed him off in the short story “The Final Problem” in 1893.
How? In a battle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty! They both fall to their deaths at the Reichenbach Falls.
Readers were OUTRAGED!
Wore black armbands
Sent death threats to Conan Doyle
Placed memorials at the Reichenbach Falls

golf with his friend, Bertram Fletcher Robinson.
Robinson told him

of a local legend about Squire Richard Cabell, a monstrously evil man, whose death came at the mouths of a pack of huge, fire-breathing hounds (called Black Shucks)…

and he didn’t really want to invent a new

detective, so to his readers’ joy, he made Holmes his main character once again.

Incidentally, he did not bring Holmes back to life (yet), but he set the story at an earlier time in Holmes’ life.

back Holmes, and he did so in a story

called “The Adventure of the Empty House.”
Apparently, Holmes had faked his own death to fool Moriarty’s henchmen.
ACD went on to write 32 more stories and one more novel before officially retiring his famous detective.

Coming of the Fairies (1921).
He was convinced that fairies

existed and proved it by adding photographs.
The photographs were actually faked by two young girls - the “fairies” were paper cutouts!

characters in all of literature are as widely known

as Sherlock Holmes.’”
“221B Baker Street—or the closest thing to it that can be identified in the modern London thoroughfare—is a pilgrimage site for faithful Holmes devotees from around the world.”

in World Literature
“Each generation wants to see its own

Holmes in action. At least twenty-one plays have been based on aspects of Holmes’s life.”

The Guinness World Records 2000 lists him as the

character most often portrayed in film.”