by Conan Doyle · Cluster: War and Empire · History · Nationalism and Patriotism
Abstract
A memoir-essay cataloguing the books on Doyle’s own shelves, offering appreciations of Macaulay, Scott, and other favourite authors while musing on reading, creativity, and the fates of writers.
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Parti / Parts
Readability (prose)-17.6 Flesch ease35.3 FK grade37.8 Fog16% complex79 words/sent
Connections
Forms & Genres: Literary Criticism, Essay, Nonfiction Themes & Concepts: Beauty and Truth, Imagination, Creativity, Memory and Time, History Motifs: The Book, Book Reading Characters: Sir Walter Scott, William Shakespeare Archetypes: The Writer Topoi: Immortality Through Verse
Also relevant to: Self-Knowledge · Immortality · Self-Reliance