The Stark Munro Letters
Longmans, Green & Co., London | |
Publication date | 1895 |
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| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
The Stark Munro Letters is a novel by British author
Background
The book is heavily autobiographical, depicting Conan Doyle's relationship with his parents and his emerging interest in spirituality. It incorporates material he wrote early in 1891 on his rejection of Catholicism in favour of spiritualism.[1] The book was rewritten and collated at the Swiss health spa of Davos, where his wife was recuperating from an illness. This was shortly after he had published "The Final Problem", the story in which he killed off Sherlock Holmes; in writing The Stark Munro Letters he was attempting to expand his career in a more literary direction. In a letter to his mother dated 23 January 1894, he wrote that "It will make a religious sensation if not a literary - possibly both. I really don't think a young man's life has been gone into so deeply in English literature before."[2]
Synopsis
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Mention in James Joyce's Ulysses
The Stark-Munro Letters by A. Conan Doyle is mentioned in the "Ithaca" chapter of Ulysses.[7]
References
- ^ Nordon, Pierre (1964). Conan Doyle: A Biography. Paris: Holt, Rinehart & Winston. p. 37.
- ISBN 9780436206139.
- ^ "The lasting appeal of legendary detective Sherlock Holmes is due to t…". Archived from the original on 5 May 2013.
- ^ Professor Mark Brayshay. "Book Review: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon". devonassoc.org.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
- ^ John Van der Kiste. "Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes and Devon". thebookbag.co.uk. Retrieved 30 January 2024.
- ^ "Arthur Conan Doyle, The Official Site of the Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate, Biography".
- ^ The book The Stark-Munro Letters, property of the City of Dublin Public Library and indicated as 13 days overdue, appears in a list of 22 books found on pages 660 to 662 of the 1st edition of Ulysses. See Joyce, James. Ulysses (1st ed.). Paris: Shakespeare and Company. p. 661.
External links
- The Stark Munro Letters at Project Gutenberg
The Stark Munro Letters public domain audiobook at LibriVox- Moulds, Alison (16 December 2016). "Medical fiction for popular readers: The Stark Munro Letters (1895)". Royal College of Surgeons of England.
