Written by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Coming of the Fairies
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Coming of the Fairies is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. This book contains reproductions of the famous Cottingley photographs, and gives the whole of the evidence in connection with them. The diligent reader is in almost as good a position as I am to form a judgment upon the authenticity of the pictures. This nar..
The Doings of Raffles Haw
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Doings of Raffles Haw is a novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. A mysterious millionaire, Raffles Haw, comes to reside in Tamfield in Staffordshire. Even before he arrives, people start gossiping about him. As his house is being constructed, people wonder at the number of workers, their speed, and the complete disregard..
The Great Boer War
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Great Boer War is a non-fiction work on the Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle and first published in 1900 by Smith, Elder & Co. By the end of the war in 1902 the book had been published in 16 editions, constantly revised by Doyle. The Introduction describes the book as: "A very thorough account, including tables at the end of those killed or woun..
Round the Fire Stories
by Arthur Conan DoyleRound the Fire Stories is a volume collecting 17 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1908 by Smith, Elder & Co. (UK), and the same year by McClure (US). As Conan Doyle wrote in his preface, this volume include stories concerned with the grotesque and with the terrible...
Danger! and Other Stories
by Arthur Conan DoyleDanger! And Other Stories (1918) is a collection of short stories published by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The collection's title story, "Danger! Being the Log of Captain John Sirius", was written 18 months before the outbreak of World War I and first published in the Strand Magazine in July 1914. It depicts an imaginary country in Europe fighting - an..
Micah Clarke
by Arthur Conan DoyleMicah Clarke is a historical adventure novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle, published in 1889 and set during the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685 in England. The book is a bildungsroman whose protagonist, Micah Clarke, begins as a boy seeking adventure in a rather romantic and naive way, falls under the influence of an older and vastly experienced..
The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Captain of the Polestar and Other Tales is a volume collecting 10 short stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published by Longmans, Green & Co. on 6 march 1890. This morning I saw a star twinkling just over the fore-yard, the first since the beginning of May. There is considerable discontent among the crew, many of whom are anxious to ge..
The Parasite - A Story
by Arthur Conan DoyleThe Parasite is an 1894 novelette by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The main character is a young man known as Austin Gilroy. He studies physiology and knows a professor who is studying the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa, who has a crippled leg and psychic powers. She is a friend of the Professor's wife. ..