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№1 слайд![Sir Arthur Conan Doyle](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img0.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
№2 слайд![Overview British novelist,](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img1.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Overview
British novelist, short story writer, poet, doctor of medicine
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland on May 22, 1859
Studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh (where he met Dr. Joseph Bell)
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Содержание слайда: As a child…
His father, a chronic alcoholic, was later committed to an insane asylum
He had a special bond with his mom:
“In my early childhood, as far as I can remember anything at all, the vivid stories she would tell me stand out so clearly …”
“My mother had been so splendid that I could not fail her.”
№4 слайд![As a teenager His wealthy](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img3.jpg)
Содержание слайда: As a teenager…
His wealthy family members paid for him to go to boarding school
Athletic: cricket, football/soccer, sailing
Smart: “He was often found, surrounded by a bevy of totally enraptured younger students, listening to the amazing stories he would make up to amuse them.”
SURPRISE! He decides to go to medical school.
№5 слайд![As a doctor Opened his own](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img4.jpg)
Содержание слайда: As a doctor…
Opened his own medical practice, but was
moderately successful
In his down time, he continued writing stories…
№6 слайд![As an adult Married Louise](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img5.jpg)
Содержание слайда: As an adult…
Married Louise “Touie” Hawkins
“gentle and amiable”
They had 2 children.
She died of TB in 1906.
Married Jean Leckie in 1907 … after meeting her in 1897
They had 3 children:
Denis, Adrian, & Lena Jean
He spoke his last words to her:
“You are wonderful.”
№7 слайд![As an author Wrote an article](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img6.jpg)
Содержание слайда: As an author…
Wrote an article about the Boer War, and was knighted in 1902
Wrote many historical articles and nonfiction works
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Содержание слайда: Death
Found clutching his chest in the hall of his home in East Sussex, England
Died of heart attack on July, 7, 1930, aged 71
Tombstone in New Forest, Hampshire reads:
STEEL TRUE
BLADE STRAIGHT
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
KNIGHT
PATRIOT, PHYSICIAN & MAN OF LETTERS
№9 слайд![Major works Sherlock Holmes](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img8.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Major works
Sherlock Holmes: 4 novels & 56 short stories
Originally published short stories monthly in the Strand Magazine
1st novel, 1886: A Study in Scarlet, including Sherlock Holmes & Dr. Watson
1st book of short stories (12): The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes , in 1892
2nd collection: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, in 1894
“The Speckled Band” was written in 1907 and performed as a successful play
№10 слайд![Sherlock Holmes Most famous](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img9.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Sherlock Holmes
Most famous fictional detective of all time
Based on Conan Doyle’s medical professor, Dr. Joseph Bell - gifted at observation, logic, deduction, and diagnosis
Lived at 221B Baker Street, London
Many readers thought Holmes was REAL!
№11 слайд![World s Best Detective](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img10.jpg)
Содержание слайда: World’s Best Detective
Courageous
Clever
Attention to details
Eccentric
№12 слайд![Dr. John Watson Assistant,](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img11.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Dr. John Watson
Assistant, sidekick
Narrator – loyal, gentleman, observes
Average intelligence
Foil
№13 слайд![R.I.P. Holmes After two](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img12.jpg)
Содержание слайда: R.I.P. Holmes
After two novels and 24 short stories, Conan Doyle grew tired of Holmes and wanted to spend his time with more “important” work - so he killed him off in the short story “The Final Problem” in 1893.
How? In a battle with his nemesis, Professor Moriarty! They both fall to their deaths at the Reichenbach Falls.
Readers were OUTRAGED!
Wore black armbands
Sent death threats to Conan Doyle
Placed memorials at the Reichenbach Falls
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Содержание слайда: But then…
While vacationing in 1901, ACD was playing golf with his friend,
Bertram Fletcher Robinson.
Robinson told him of a local legend about Squire Richard Cabell, a monstrously evil man, whose death came at the mouths of a pack of huge, fire-breathing hounds (called Black Shucks)…
№15 слайд![Conan Doyle could NOT pass](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img14.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Conan Doyle could NOT pass this up… and he didn’t really want to invent a new detective, so to his readers’ joy, he made Holmes his main character once again.
Conan Doyle could NOT pass this up… and he didn’t really want to invent a new detective, so to his readers’ joy, he made Holmes his main character once again.
Incidentally, he did not bring Holmes back to life (yet), but he set the story at an earlier time in Holmes’ life.
№16 слайд![Holmes returns! Eventually,](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img15.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Holmes returns!
Eventually, Conan Doyle did decide to bring back Holmes, and he did so in a story called “The Adventure of the Empty House.”
Apparently, Holmes had faked his own death to fool Moriarty’s henchmen.
ACD went on to write 32 more stories and one more novel before officially retiring his famous detective.
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Содержание слайда: Weird, but true…
ACD wrote a book called The Coming of the Fairies (1921).
He was convinced that fairies existed and proved it by adding photographs.
The photographs were actually faked by two young girls - the “fairies” were paper cutouts!
№18 слайд![The Cottingley Fairies](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img17.jpg)
Содержание слайда: The Cottingley Fairies
№19 слайд![Legacy of Holmes Christopher](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img18.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Legacy of Holmes
“Christopher Clausen asserts confidently that ‘few characters in all of literature are as widely known as Sherlock Holmes.’”
“221B Baker Street—or the closest thing to it that can be identified in the modern London thoroughfare—is a pilgrimage site for faithful Holmes devotees from around the world.”
№20 слайд![Ranks th on the Fictional](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img19.jpg)
Содержание слайда: Ranks 9th on the Fictional 100
Most Influential Characters in World Literature
“Each generation wants to see its own Holmes in action. At least twenty-one plays have been based on aspects of Holmes’s life.”
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Содержание слайда: Film
“Holmes’s life in films is even more spectacular. The Guinness World Records 2000 lists him as the character most often portrayed in film.”
№22 слайд![References Kocsik, Diana. Sir](/documents/9501f80fb68832c3463eee8755690266/img21.jpg)
Содержание слайда: References
Kocsik, Diana. “Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Hound of
the Baskervilles.” SlideShare, 2011. Web. 15 Oct. 2011.
Pollard-Gott, Lucy. “Sherlock Holmes (9).” The Fictional 100,
2009. Web. 15 Oct. 2011.
Sherlock Holmes Online. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary
Estate, 2000. Web. 15 Oct. 2011.