Avail Yourself The Green Flag: And Other Stories Of War And Sport (Classic Reprint) Brought To You By Arthur Conan Doyle Displayed As Copy

short stories by Doyle, I recommend them for light reading just before bed, pretty much all the stories except the Green Flag were great, Excerpt from The Green Flag: And Other Stories of War and Sport

Ies homogeneous, but these have this in common: that they concern themselves with war and sport a fact which may commend them to the temper of the times.
Such as they are I have chosen them as the fittest survivors out of,

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy, In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition, We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works, A compilation of about twelve of his short stories, All were short, yet entertaining tales, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings onMayin Edinburgh, Scotland, His father, sitelink Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish, They were married in. Although he is now referred to as Conan Doyle, the origin of this compound surname if that is how he meant it to be understood is uncertain, His baptism record in the registry of St Marys Cathedral in Edinburgh gives Arthur Ignatius Conan as his Christian name, and simply Doyle as his surname, It also names Michael Conan as his godfather, At the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, He then went Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was born the third of ten siblings onMayin Edinburgh, Scotland, His father, sitelink Charles Altamont Doyle, a talented illustrator, was born in England of Irish descent, and his mother, born Mary Foley, was Irish, They were married in. Although he is now referred to as "Conan Doyle", the origin of this compound surname if that is how he meant it to be understood is uncertain, His baptism record in the registry of St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh gives 'Arthur Ignatius Conan' as his Christian name, and simply 'Doyle' as his surname, It also names Michael Conan as his godfather, At the age of nine Conan Doyle was sent to the Roman Catholic Jesuit preparatory school, Hodder Place, Stonyhurst, He then went on to Stonyhurst College, leaving in, Fromtohe studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, This required that he provide periodic medical assistance in the towns of Aston now a district of Birmingham and Sheffield, While studying, Conan Doyle began writing short stories, His first published story appeared

in " Chambers's Edinburgh Journal" before he was, Following his graduation, he was employed as a ship's doctor on the SS Mayumba during a voyage to the West African coast, He completed his doctorate on the subject of tabes dorsalis in, InConan Doyle married Louisa or Louise Hawkins, known as "Touie", She suffered from tuberculosis and died onJuly, The following year he married Jean Elizabeth Leckie, whom he had first met and fallen in love with in, Due to his sense of loyalty he had maintained a purely platonic relationship with Jean while his first wife was alive, Jean died in London onJune, Conan Doyle fathered five children, Two with his first wifeMary LouiseJanuaryJune, and Arthur Alleyne Kingsley, known as KingsleyNovemberOctober, With his second wife he had three childrenDenis Percy StewartMarchMarch, second husband inof Georgian Princess Nina Mdivani circaFebruaryformer sister in law of Barbara Hutton Adrian MalcolmNovemberJuneand Jean Lena AnnetteDecemberNovember.
Conan Doyle was found clutching his chest in the hall of Windlesham, his house in Crowborough, East Sussex, onJuly, He had died of a heart attack at age, His last words were directed toward his wife: "You are wonderful, " The epitaph on his gravestone in the churchyard at Minstead in the New Forest, Hampshire, reads:STEEL TRUEBLADE STRAIGHTARTHUR CONAN DOYLEKNIGHTPATRIOT, PHYSICIAN MAN OF LETTERSConan Doyle's house, Undershaw, located in Hindhead, south of London, where he had lived for a decade, had been a hotel and restaurant betweenand.
It now stands empty while conservationists and Conan Doyle fans fight to preserve it, A statue honours Conan Doyle at Crowborough Cross in Crowborough, where Conan Doyle lived foryears, There is also a statue of Sherlock Holmes in Picardy Place, Edinburgh, close to the house where Conan Doyle was born, Series: sitelink Sherlock Holmes sitelink,