ARTHUR
CONAN
DOYLE!!!
an amazing
historical character.
I suppose that when you were reading it you think: "Hmmm, who is that
old man? I don't know him!". Wait! I will explain it to you.
I'm sure
that you have noticed that picture in Mistery History.
Yes, yes!
It is the famous Sherlock Holmes! But he isn't a real person like
Queen Elizabeth II. He was just a fake! The man who invented Sherlock
Holmes was Arthur Conan Doyle. His life was very mysterious.
He was born in Edinburgh in 1859. His youth wasn't very happy. His family was poor and his father was addicted to drugs and alcohol.His mother wanted to earn some money as a washerwoman.
Luckily, he left his home quickly, because the wealthy members of the Doyle family offered to pay for his studies. He studied medicine in Edinburgh. He used to oppose corporal punishment in schools.
During his studying he discovered his storytelling talent. He was good at cricket. He used to write letters to his mother very often. His teacher became the model of Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle was twenty years old and in his third year of medical studies, when for the first time adventure knocked on his door. He was offered the post of ship's surgeon on the Hope , a whaling boat, about to leave for the Arctic Circle.
On the Hope Arthur became the real sailor. He wrote a book called "Captain of the Pole-Star." Doyle's first paid job was a medical officer on the steamer Mayumba, a
battered old vessel navigating between Liverpool and the west coast
of Africa.
But he didn't like Africa and quickly came back to
England. Then he was robbed out of a lot of money by a tricky
doctor. After college he became a real doctor. He used to earn a lot
of money and he wrote his first Sherlock Holmes book "Study in
Scarlet." Supposedly, he was the model of doctor Watson – the
Holmes's partner. Arthur Conan Doyle became very poular in the USA.
He
moved to London and got the best job in his life – in a
newspaper where he used to write a lot of texts about Sherlock
Holmes. One year later he understood that he couldn't
combine doctor's and writer's career. He chose the career of a writer.
He used to sign the letters to his friends: "Dr. Watson".
Unfortunately, he got rid of Sherlock Holmes. He wrote a novel "The
Final Problem". Profesor Moriarty - the enemy of Sherlock
Holmes plunged
to their deaths at The Reichenbach Falls.
As a result, twenty thousand readers cancelled their subscriptions to The
Strand Magazine.
The Reichenbach Falls became a tourist attraction.
After his wife's death he became interested in spiritism and lost his
friend – Houdini, who didn't approve of this. When the Boer War started he became a soldier-surgeon. He became the Boer War veteran. It was an inspiration for him.
When he came back to England he wrote the famous book called: "The Hound of Baskervilles". A
year later, King Edward VII knighted Conan Doyle for services
rendered to the Crown during the Boer War. Supposedly, King wanted to
encourage Doyle to write a new book about Sherlock Holmes. Be that as
it may, His Majesty and several hundred thousand of his subjects must
have been very pleased when in 1903 The Strand Magazine started
serializing The Return of Sherlock Holmes .
The writer got married again. His
family moved to Windelsham in Sussex. He wrote some dramas and a new
famous book "The Lost World" about doctor Challenger's
amazing adventures. It was his first sience fiction piece. He wrote the
next book about Sherlock Holmes – "The Valley of Fear".
As soon as the first World War broke out, Conan Doyle then
fifty-five, offered to enlist again.But he wasn't allowed to become a soldier again. He invented some gadgets and armors for the army, but
most government officials found him irritating at best. One of the
exceptions was Winston Churchill, who wrote to thank him for his
ideas. While writing a book, which was to be called "The British
Campaign in France and Flanders" , the author was given permission to
visit the British and French fronts in 1916. He was afraid of the
horror of the war. During the war he lost his son Kingsley, his
brother, his two brothers-in-law and his two nephews. He became a
famous spiritist to contact with his dead family. As a result, the
Press mocked him, the Clergy disapproved of him. He wrote some more
books about doctor Challenger.
In the autumn of 1929, in spite of
having been diagnosed with Angina Pectoris, Conan Doyle went off for
his last tour to Holland, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. One day he rose
from his bed, and unseen went into the garden. When he was found, he
was lying on the ground, one hand clutching his heart, the other
holding a single white snowdrop. Arthur Conan Doyle died on Monday,
July 7, 1930, surrounded by his family. His last words before
departing for "the greatest and most glorious adventure of all,"
were addressed to his wife: "You are wonderful". Then he
died.
by Anonymous Hater.
