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Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)

The Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated) is a meticulously curated compilation of the renowned author's literary output. It encompasses the complete Sherlock Holmes series, which includes the original adventures and later novels. Additionally, the collection features various other short stories and non-fiction works by Doyle. The illustrated format aims to enrich the narrative with visual interpretations of the text. more

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Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, born on May 22, 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland, was a renowned Scottish physician and writer. He is best known for his creation of the Sherlock Holmes series of detective novels, which have had a profound impact on the development of detective fiction and played a crucial role in shaping modern detective culture. more

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“What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions — they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force.”