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Title The Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : thirteen biographers in search of a life / edited by Jon L. Lellenberg ; with a foreword by Dame Jean Conan Doyle.

Imprint Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, c1987.

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Description xviii, 217 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Quest for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle / Jon L. Lellenberg -- Autobiography -- Experience veiled in pseudonyms / Ely M. Liebow -- His final tale of chivalry / Richard Lancelyn Green -- Commitment to great causes / Andrew S. Malec -- Biography -- Spiritualist crusade / Philip A. Shreffer -- Good-natured debunking / Nicholas Utechin -- Family's counterattack / James Bliss Austin -- Ideal storybook hero / Howard Lachtman -- Scholarship translated into popular biography / Donald A. Redmond -- Four miniature portraits / Edward S. Lauterbach -- Search for emotional peace / Peter E. Blau & Jon L. Lellenberg -- Snide debunking / David R. Anderson -- Victorian Philistinism reconsidered / Richard Lancely Green -- Foreshadowed by his youth / Christopher Redmond -- Epilogue -- Quest continues / Jon L. Lellenberg.
Subject Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930.
Authors, Scottish -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Occultists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- History and criticism.
Biography as a literary form.
Added Author Lellenberg, Jon L.
ISBN 0809313847 (alk. paper)

 
    
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