The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure

by Arthur Conan Doyle

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Genres: Short Stories, Adventure, Classics, Fiction, Mystery

260 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 29, 2009

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Paul Weiss · Rating 4 out of 5]

A delightful anthology of adventure and medical short stories!

Virtually every reader of any age at all is familiar with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous creations, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Far fewer readers are familiar with his lesser creations - Professor Challenger, Brigadier Gerard, Rodney Stone and Sir Nigel Loring, for example. And even fewer again are aware that he wrote an enormous number of short stories and novels related to a variety of themes including horror and the paranormal, adventure and British imperialism, suspense, medicine and general Victorian life.

THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL (AND OTHER STORIES) is a wonderful anthology of stories broken into two distinct themes. The first is a series of adventure tales and the second, believe it or not, is an entire series of stories that focuses on the topic of Victorian medicine. Fascinating for their historical value and the perspective they give on the practice of medicine over a century ago that Conan Doyle would have perceived as cutting edge, these stories are also quite delightful in that they are primarily charming, whimsical and unfailingly entertaining.

For those that wish to sample some excellent Victorian fiction by a master whose works beyond Sherlock Holmes have been sadly neglected, THE MAN FROM ARCHANGEL is an excellent place to start. I can heartily recommend a couple of other anthologies that are well worth your reading time - THE HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS and ROUND THE FIRE STORIES.

Highly recommended.

Paul Weiss

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fifteen stories divided into two classifications: adventure or medical. I found the tales of adventure more interesting. The title story was the best. Lots of reclusive and strange protagonists.

[George · Rating 4 out of 5]

Short story of a man who is extremely anti social so takes a home on an isolated portion of the Scottish coast living a solitary life except for an elderly house keeper. A huge storm wrecks a ship off his shore and a woman appears to be the sole survivor and he takes her in merely tolerating her. He then discovers there is another survivor, the ship's captain, who wants the woman who doesn't want him.

[Marine · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first story was good. The second was amusing. The third and the rest were slowly becoming bland. Maybe because it was more focused on surgeon's life or any health workers' discussion, I did not get the point of interest.

[William · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining listening 🔰😀

Fifteen will written short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. Each story is different with interesting will developed characters. I would highly recommend this novella to anyone looking for quick reads. Enjoy the adventure of reading 📚 2021🏰

[Pipa · Rating 3 out of 5]

cerita-cerita dalam buku ini sebenarnya cukup unik dan menarik. hanya saja istilah-istilah dan penjelasan kedokteran membuat saya bosan.

[Lois · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sad story but it held my interest to the end.

[Billy Akbar · Rating 4 out of 5]

(Bahasa)
Kumpulan cerita unik, berkisahkan mengenai 15 cerita, yang masing-masing punya warna tersendiri, tapi kebanyakan mengisahkan tentang kedokteran, kekurangannya banyak bahasa-bahasa ilmiah yang tidak menyertakan contohnya dalam cerita kedokteran.
Tapi tetap cukup diminati juga, kalau anda memang suka dengan hal-hal yang berbau kedokteran, dan hal-hal yang ilmiah.

[Nunik Kartikarini · Rating 3 out of 5]

15 cerita pendek karangan Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Kebanyakan berkisah tentang dokter, ilmuwan dan petualangan mereka. Very recommended for adrenaline seekers #shortstories 

[Ajengpuspita · Rating 4 out of 5]

actually from story list, i prefer choose the doctors from hoyland, its such better story than other in this book