Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles (Annotated) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (Edinburgh; May 22, 1859-Crowborough; July 7, 1930) was a British writer and physician, creator of the celebrated fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He was a prolific author whose work includes science fiction stories, historical novels, theater, and poetry. Although he signed A. Conan Doyle, which could lead one to think that his surname was Conan Doyle, both the British Library and the Library of Congress catalog his works with the surname Doyle. Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859 at number 11 Picardy Place, in the city of Edinburgh, Scotland. He belonged to an Irish Catholic family that had provided a saga of illustrators and cartoonists, started by his grandfather John Doyle and it was continued by his uncles the illustrator Richard Doyle, who designed the cover and head of Punch magazine, the antiquarian James Doyle and Henry E. Doyle, director of the National Gallery of Ireland His father, Charles Altamont Doyle, was the youngest of John Doyle's children and grew up eclipsed for the brilliant careers of his brothers. He studied architecture and in 1849, when he was nineteen, he accepted a job at the Edinburgh Office of Public Works.