Today, May 22, marks the birthday of Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930).
Maybe you’ve heard of him? He created a detecive names Sherlock Holmes.
But he did so much more than that. There was the Professor Challenger series, starting with The Lost World. And there were other adventure stories and books. Most of those have been forgotten in the shadow of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle wrote a number of ghost stories. If you haven’t read “Th eCaptain of the Polestar”, you should.
And then there was the descent into spiritualism. And that bjuisness with the Cottingley Fairies.
But let’s not dwell on that. Doyle wrote a great many works of fiction that are worth reading today.
Of course, we know and remember Conan Doyle.
He was very famous in the USSR and and in the USSR they even created a series about The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
You would probably find it funny to watch The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes when Sherlock Holmes speaks pure Russian with Dr. Watson:)
You can check it in YouTube
In my home library there is a collection of his works translated into ucranian language
I remember reading these books when I was in school:
The poison belt,
The maracot deep
The lost world
The Doings of Raffles How
But most of all I liked reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
Doyle was a great storyteller during an age of great storytellers.
Agreed.