expose in his plays?
10. Why do we appreciate Oscar Wilde’s works?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a British writer, who created
Sherlock Holmes, the world’s best known detective. Millions of
readers are delighted in his ability to solve crimes by an amazing
use o f reason and observation.
Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a doctor and
began practicing medicine in 1882, but his practice was not suc
cessful. Sherlock Holmes came into being while the young doctor
waited vainly for patients. Doyle amused himself during those
long hours by writing stories about a “scientific” detective who
solved cases by his amusing power of deduction. His early stories
were not very popular, but he won great success with his first
Holmes novel “A Study in Scarlet” (1887).
The author modeled Holmes on a real person, a tall, wiry sur
geon who had the reputation o f being able to tell a person’s occu
pation just by looking at him. Holmes appeared in 56 short stories,
written by Doyle, and three other novels: “The Sign o f Four”
(1890), “The Hound of the Baskervilles”( 1902), and ’’The Valley
Sir A rthur Conan Doyle
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of Fear” (191 5). Later, growing tired of writing Holmes stories,
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle w rote a story in which the detective was
killed by the Professor Mariarty mentioned at the beginning of
“The Adventure o f the Norwood Builder”. But Holmes was so
popular that public demand forced the author to bring him back
to life in “The Return o f Sherlock Holmes”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote historical novels,
romances, and plays. At last he left fiction to study and lecture on
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