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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
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Middle-aged men -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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Chon Sŭmisŭ iyagi = The narrative of John Smith / Kʻonan Toil chiŭm ; Chu Sun-ae omgim.
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Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
Sŏul-si : I Sup e Olppaemi, 2014.
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Middle-aged men -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
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9788994228853 (paperback)
8994228853 (paperback)
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255 pages ; 19 cm
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1-pʻan.
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Arthur Conan Doyle wrote The Narrative of John Smith in 1883 when he was just 23, living in Portsmouth and struggling to establish himself as a doctor and a writer. By that time he had succeeded in getting a number of short stories published in leading magazines of the day, such as Blackwood's, All the Year Round, London Society and the Boy's Own Paper. But, as was the accepted practice of literary journals of the time, his stories were published anonymously and Conan Doyle realised that to make his name as a writer he would have to write a novel. That novel, the first he ever wrote, and published here for the first time, is The Narrative of John Smith. More a string of ruminations than a novel, it is however of considerable biographical importance and has exceptional value as a window into the mind of the creator of Sherlock Holmes. Many of the themes and tropes of his later writing, including his first Sherlock Holmes story A Study in Scarlet (published in 1887), can be clearly seen. Via the protagonist, John Smith, a 50-year-old man confined to his room by an attack of gout, Conan Doyle sets down his thoughts and opinions on a range of subjects - literature, science, religion, war, education - with no detectable shyness or diffidence, full of bravado in the face of little professional success at that time. Although it has little in the way of plot it stands as a fascinating record of an early attempt at writing by a man who was on his way to being one of the best-known authors in the world.
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