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On Conan Doyle
A passionate lifelong fan of the Sherlock Holmes adventures, Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Michael Dirda is a member of The Baker Street Irregulars--the most famous and romantic of all Sherlockian groups. Combining memoir and appreciation, On Conan Doyle is a highly engaging personal introduction to Holmes's creator, as well as a rare insider's account of the curiously delightful activities and playful scholarship of The Baker Street Irregulars.
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Vladimir Nabokov, Reduced to Notes
Should this book have been published? Certainly all the work of a great writer like Vladimir Nabokov ought to be available to scholars and interested readers. To my mind, Dmitri Nabokov was clearly right to ignore his dying father’s request that he destroy these fragments of an unfinished novel. But that doesn’t mean The Original of Laura actually deserves the attention of anyone but the most rabid Nabokov fanatic. Apart from a few enchanting phrases – “the orange awnings of southern summers” – there’s just not much here.
But first a little background.
When Nabokov died in Switzerland at the
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The mystery behind the Baroness
When, with the help of her husband, she concocted the play based on The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905), it broke box office records and was later adapted and re-adapted for the movies, some scripts drawing further plot elements from the dozen later novels and short-story collections about her hero and his league of extraordinary gentlemen. Only half-way through the novel-with plenty of action still to come-does Marguerite start to wonder: \"What connection could there be between her exquisite dandy of a husband, with his fine clothes and refined, lazy ways, and the daring plotter who rescued French victims from beneath the very eyes of the leaders of a bloodthirsty revolution?\" Finally, the dark truth hits home: \"In betraying a nameless stranger to his fate in order to save her brother, had Marguerite Blakeney sent her husband to his death?\" While The Scarlet Pimpernel lives on as one of the world's great adventure novels, it is also a wonderful and unusual story about love and married life. [...]Baroness Orczy's own life (1865-1947) was almost as extraordinary as that of her various heroes. Ever since Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines (1885) and She (1887), novels about lost civilizations had become a significant sub-genre of popular fiction, helped along by contemporary theories of a hollow earth, theosophist belief in ancient adepts inhabiting a mountain fastness in Tibet, and speculation about the possible survival of ancient Atlanteans in the South Seas.
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