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Chargement... Round the Red Lamppar Arthur Conan Doyle
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HTML: Today, he is acclaimed as one of the most famous originators of the genre of detective fiction, but Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's literary talents were broad, and he dabbled in many styles and themes over the course of his career. Round the Red Lamp is one of Doyle's tales set in the rough and tumble world of the nineteenth-century medical establishment. .Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This collection began as a series of eight stories commissioned by Jerome K. Jerome for his Idler magazine, but, of the eight, only three appeared there, the other five having been rejected for being too "realistic". In his preface, Doyle notes that a red lamp "is the usual sign of a general practitioner in England." This volume includes 15 medical stories. Several of the short stories appear in this volume for the first time because "when they were written, they proved to be too strong for the public taste." Doyle defends the emphasis in these stories on "the graver side of life," and compares their action on the reader to a tonic, "bitter to the taste but bracing in the result." [Note: Doyle wrote 18 short stories that Rodin and Key defined as "medical fiction."]