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Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

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9780393075076 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1976, cover price $12.95 | also contains Everyday Wisdom 2016 Calendar | About this edition: Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

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9780393331103 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 28, 1976, cover price $19.95

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Traces the life and career of the British novelist, examines his historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasies, as well as nonfiction prose, and describes the themes of his work

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9780804421461 | Ungar Pub Co, July 1, 1985, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Traces the life and career of the British novelist, examines his historical fiction, mysteries, and fantasies, as well as nonfiction prose, and describes the themes of his work

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9780836967340 | Facsimile edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1977), cover price $39.95

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Catherine Carswell was heir to Glasgow's nineteenth century, its godliness, its realism, its modernity, and its sentimentality. As a well travelled twentieth-century woman, who lived in London from 1910, she visited Italy, Germany, France, and met most of Stalin's cabinet in pre-war Russia. This book presents a vivid account of her life.

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9780859766852 | Ill edition (Birlinn Ltd, March 1, 2007), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Catherine Carswell was heir to Glasgow's nineteenth century, its godliness, its realism, its modernity, and its sentimentality.

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9780080345178 | Pergamon Pr, December 1, 1986, cover price $10.50

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Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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9780892962471 | Mysterious Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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9780892969265 | Mysterious Pr, October 1, 1988, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Presents a biography celebrating the active and impassioned public life and prolific literary career of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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9780521224673 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 29, 1979), cover price $39.50

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9780521090094 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, November 13, 2008), cover price $44.99

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9780811219235 | Reprint edition (New Directions, May 18, 2011), cover price $14.95

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A fascinating biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man who sought to live up the Victorian ideal of manhood and who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes. (view table of contents)

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9780312242510 | Minotaur Books, February 1, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A biography of the author of the Sherlock Holmes series reveals a man of Victorian times who was loath to be remembered as the creator of Holmes

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Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

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9780393075076, titled "The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes" | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1976, cover price $12.95 | also contains The Adventures of Conan Doyle: The Life of the Creator of Sherlock Holmes | About this edition: Details the personal adventures of the Scottish-born doctor-author and the many, revealing parallels between his life and his stories

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9781401944742 | Box pag edition (Hay House Inc, August 18, 2015), cover price $16.99

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Product Description: Book by Brown, Margaret Gillies (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781874640691 | Argyll Pub, June 1, 1999, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Book by Brown, Margaret Gillies

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By Charlie Allan (introduced by)

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9781841588223 | Birlinn Ltd, June 1, 2009, cover price $12.95

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George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, offering a simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.

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9780719556289 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, February 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: George Mackay Brown wrote this memoir in the years before his death in 1996, offering a simple, bardic honesty turned on himself.

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9780719558894 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, March 1, 1998, cover price $22.99

Product Description: This work examines different aspects of George Mackay Brown's work and concludes with an updated and enlarged bibliography. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Hilda D. Spear (editor)

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9780773476974 | Edwin Mellen Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This work examines different aspects of George Mackay Brown's work and concludes with an updated and enlarged bibliography.

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George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest 20th century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes. He had a wide international reputation, but hardly left his native Orkney. A prolific poet, he was also an accomplished novelist and a master of the short story. When he died on 13th April 1996, he left behind an autobiography as deft as it is ultimately uninformative.

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9780719556593 | John Murray Pubs Ltd, April 1, 2006, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: George Mackay Brown was one of Scotland's greatest 20th century writers, but in person a bundle of paradoxes.

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9780719566059 | Reprint edition (John Murray Pubs Ltd, September 28, 2007), cover price $18.95

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By Richard Holloway (introduced by)

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9780715209356 | St Andrew Pr, August 13, 2011, cover price $31.99

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9781850572503 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, July 1, 1989), cover price $11.95

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When he was five, Neil's mother walked out of the family home. Two years later she returned with a new man; Derek Cross. This tale describes how a lonely child deprived of his own father came to fall in love with a monster.

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9780743263740 | New edition (Gardners Books, January 3, 2006), cover price $13.40 | About this edition: When he was five, Neil's mother walked out of the family home.

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A portrait of the life and career of the classic author best known for Peter Pan examines the controversies surrounding his life, from his scandalous divorce and guardianship of the orphaned Davies boys to the real-life Peter's hatred of his association with the literary character and Barrie's depiction in the 2004 film Finding Neverland. 15,000 first printing.

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9780312357795 | St Martins Pr, June 27, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A portrait of the life and career of the author best known for Peter Pan examines the controversies surrounding his life, from his divorce and guardianship of the orphaned Davies boys to the real-life Peter's hatred of his association with the literary character and Barrie's depiction in the 2004 film 'Finding Neverland.

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Product Description: Using a combination of poetry and prose, this volume is both autobiographical and autogeographical, it presents an anthology of vignettes portraying the life and landscape of the author's self-imposed exile on the Breton shore. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780748662791 | Polygon, September 1, 2001, cover price $19.50 | About this edition: Using a combination of poetry and prose, this volume is both autobiographical and autogeographical, it presents an anthology of vignettes portraying the life and landscape of the author's self-imposed exile on the Breton shore.

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