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Arthur & Sherlock: Conan Doyle and the Creation of Holmes by Michael Sims
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As a young medical student at the University of Edinburgh, Arthur Conan Doyle studied under the vigilant eye of Dr Joseph Bell. He observed as Dr Bell identified a patient's occupation, hometown and ailments both imagined and genuine from the smallest details of dress, gait and speech. Although Doyle wa ...Show more
Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories by Michael Sims
$16.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Connoisseur's Collections
Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us...Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sim ...Show more
Frankenstein Dreams A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Science Fiction by Michael Sims
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Category: Fantasy | Series: The Connoisseur's Collections
From Mary Shelley to H.G. Wells, a collection of the best Victorian science fiction from Michael Sims, the editor of Dracula's Guest. Long before 1984, Star Wars, or The Hunger Games, Victorian authors imagined a future where new science and technologies reshaped the world and universe they knew. The g ...Show more
The Adventures of Henry Thoreau: A Young Man's Unlikely Path to Walden Pond by Michael Sims (Partners Andrew Aldridge, UK)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
"The Adventures of Henry Thoreau-"chronicling the ten years in his life beginning with Harvard in 1837 and ending as he walked away from Walden Pond after living in his long dreamed-of cabin for only two years--tells the dramatic (and at times heartbreaking) story of how a troubled young man found a mea ...Show more
The Story of Charlotte's Web: E. B. White and the Birth of a Children's Classic by Michael Sims
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
As he was composing what was to become his most enduring and popular book, E. B. White was obeying that oft-repeated maxim- 'Write what you know.' Helpless pigs, silly geese, clever spiders, greedy rats - White knew all of these characters in the barns and stables where he spent his favorite hours. Pain ...Show more
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