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Round the Red Lamp Kindle Edition

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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The first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s controversial collection of medical stories from the height of his initial fame in 1894 Arthur Conan Doyle trained in medicine at Edinburgh University in the 1870s and then spent eight years as a General Practitioner in Southsea, before deciding to become a professional author in 1890. The stories collected in Round the Red Lamp are gathered from his medical training and incidents in his life as a provincial GP. Some of the stories are daring – dealing explicitly with child birth, sexually transmitted diseases and malpractice. Some are sentimental or comic vignettes. Some are Gothic horrors. On publication the shades of dark and light bewildered some of his readers and the medical realism outraged others. Round the Red Lamp is a vital collection in understanding Conan Doyle’s shift of profession from medic to author. [Bio]Roger Luckhurst is Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on science fiction and the Gothic, and specialises in the late nineteenth century.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0083ZIOAW
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 16, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 480 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 168 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1847189601
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet 'the good giant'. He was the nephew of 'Dickie Doyle' the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes.

He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. He was a passionate advocate of many causes, ranging from divorce law reform and the Channel Tunnel to the issuing of inflatable life-jackets to sailors. He also campaigned to prove the innocence of individuals, and his work on the Edjalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and later in life became a convert to spiritualism.

His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes's companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction. Penguin publish all the books about the great detective, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes.

Photo by Walter Benington (RR Auction) [US Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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sherlockholmesguy
5.0 out of 5 stars Round the Red Lamp
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2012
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Round the Red Lamp is written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who of course is responsible for the wonderful Sherlock Holmes stories. The full title is "Round the Red Lamp, Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life"; and that is significant because all of these 15 short stories have some connection with a medical student, doctor, professor,etc. The fact is that the author was a certified doctor, having graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1881, so he drew from his medical background to add depth to his characters. The stories are not dry, sanitised accounts of patients and their respective medical problems; they are interesting narratives of regular people that become main characters in varies escapades. There is mystery, romance, adventure, supernatural and crime. Not necessarily all at the same time. Very enjoyable short stories mostly told in late 19th or early 20th century setting.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining listening
Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2021
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Due to eye issues and damage Alexa reads to me.
Another will written entertaining novella by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with interesting characters. There are 15 medical 🚑 short stories in this novella. They are interesting and each different from the one before. I would recommend this novella to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fans. Enjoy the adventure of reading 2021
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Bill Baker
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and hard to put down 19 th and early 20 th century medical tales
Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2013
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This man can write! Sure, we all have read his Sherlock Holmes tales - some of us many times - but Arthur Conan Doyle,
trained at one of the best medical schools of that time, was also a doctor and it's easy to believe that he was fascinated
by the profession and its difficulties. You won't believe how good these stories are!
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Raymond Burchette
3.0 out of 5 stars unusual read
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2012
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This is not your usual Doyle but with enough interesting stories to be interested and keep turning the pages with strange and unusal tales of doctors and their lives.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Sir Arthur's Medical Tales
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2016
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“Round the Red Lamp” is a collection 15 prose pieces related in one way or another to the medical field. In the preface to this book, Sir Arthur says of these works that he has “reserved them from serial publication” because of his concern about the effect of the stories on some potential readers and that “in book form the reader can see that they are medical stories, and can, if he or she be so minded, avoid them.”

Most of the works in this collection are short stories. They include a more or less detailed plot with characters, situations and settings that are well developed within the limitation of the pages. Most are set in southern England in the 1890's, with one, "The Los Amigos Fiasco," set in the western United States. A few seem somewhat like a professional author’s practice pieces, short works that a writer might develop as part of his creative process, similar to a painter sketching out scenes or details that may stand on their own or be integrated into a larger work.

Individual stories are not numbered, only the titles are listed; and I do not know whether this is as the book was originally published or is simply a feature of the way that it is presented on Kindle. Several of the stories are excellent. These include “A Straggler of ’15,” “The Case of Lady Sannox,” “The Doctors of Hoyland,” and “Lot No. 249.” Lady Sannox is the type of tale that Poe might have written, with a somewhat horrifying and surprising end. One of the doctors of Hoyland is a woman, something of a novelty as a Victorian-era medical practitioner. “Lot No. 249” is a “living mummy” tale which, along with “The Los Amigos Fiasco,” is also included in a later collection of Sir Arthur’s tales of the supernatural. A couple of the works, “A Medical Document” and “The Surgeon Talks” give interesting insights into the medical practices and concerns of that time; and in many ways these seem likely to be little changed into the present day. This is the third or fourth collection of Conan Doyle’s non-Holmesian short works that I have read, and of those I like it the best of all. The medical aspect is “heavy” in only a few of the stories; in most the involvement of a medical practitioner or student is almost incidental to the main story line.
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M K Temple
5.0 out of 5 stars Another genre invented by Dr. Watson's literary agent!
Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2013
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Yes. Sir Arthur was not only a parent of the modern detective story, and half a dozen science-fiction subgenres, but he also invented the medical story! He warns his readers that the short stories in Round the Red Lamp are not for the faint of heart, especially women (well, the good doctor was a child of his times). The stories range from humor to horror, with Conan Doyle's distinctive style applied to subjects he knew well. The most surprising element is how little has changed in medical life from the Edwardian period.
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Diego Ciego
5.0 out of 5 stars Conan the librarian at his best
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2017
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This is a book of short stories dealing with Physicians and their cases.
It is written so that the stories compliment each other like the adventures of Holmes and Watson and seem to make a novel. Excellent
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Evil Overlord
4.0 out of 5 stars Touching, moving, and the best Conan Doyle I've read
Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2013
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I know Conan Doyle almost entirely from  Sherlock Holmes  and  Professor Challenger . I like those stories a lot, and I downloaded some other stories to try out some time.

Round the Red Lamp is a collection of loosely medical themed stories - mostly about doctors in one way or another. One or two falls in science fiction or adventure category, but most are straightforward fiction.

I was surprised by how good these stories are. Sherlock Holmes is fun, but the stories are usually more clever than touching. The closest we usually get to emotion there is perhaps Irene Adler in "A Scandal in Bohemia", or Dr. Watson's expostulations (and background romance). Here, we have something completely different. While I like the more fantastic stories toward the end of the book, it's the stories that open the book that really hit home. They're small, but intensely moving. After reading this set, it's clear that I have not given Conan Doyle enough credit for writing skill. While not all of the stories here are excellent, they're all good, and mostly very good. I'll definitely be looking for more of his non-adventure work.

Overall, a surprising and very welcome look at Conan Doyle's more literary side. If you're a fan, pick this up. If you're just looking for touching stories, pick this up. If you like stories about doctors, pick this up. It's free, and you won't be sorry. Strongly recommended.
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Mark K Jackaman
3.0 out of 5 stars Not knowing the significance of the red light made this not my favourite novel.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2021
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You can have too much of a good thing and I think perhaps this may be it. If you know what the term 'the red lamp' means then you know what to expect and can decide whether it is the book for you. Since I didn't then I found this a bit dry for my taste.
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Corinne, Ontario, Canada
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful stories
Reviewed in Canada on October 24, 2016
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Conan Doyle's writing style is so gently beautiful. It's a lovely book to read at bedtime because each chapter is a different story so you don't get caught up in wanting to know what happens next and lose sleep.
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Nightreader
5.0 out of 5 stars Ärztegeschichten vom Schöpfer des Sherlock Holmes
Reviewed in Germany on July 1, 2016
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Der Titel mag für heutige Leser etwas missverständlich sein, daher zur Erklärung: Im viktorianischen England war die rote Lampe vor der Tür das Kennzeichen eines praktischen Arztes, nicht was Sie dachten. Mit diesem Band wird der Beweis geliefert, dass A.C.Doyle noch viel mehr konnte als Kriminalgeschichten schreiben: Seine Erzählkunst umfasste auch Gespenstergeschichten bzw. ausgesprochene Horrorgeschichten ("the leather funnel", "the Brazilian cat") sowie eben Geschichten aus seinem ureigensten Bereich - er war ja ausgebildeter Mediziner. Leckerbissen für alle, die sein Talent genießen wollen, ohne dass ihnen ständig SH über den Weg rennt.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Round the Red Lamp (English Edition) ... Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Reviewed in Japan on March 2, 2015
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kindle voyageを購入し、いつでもどこでも原著がfreeで読むことができるのは嬉しい。
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4.0 out of 5 stars schöne sammlung
Reviewed in Germany on May 10, 2013
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ich habe dieses buch wenn ich ganz ehrlich bin nur wegen lot no. 249 gekauft und die anderen geschichten noch gar nciht gelesen
aber hey, es sind geschichten von Doyle, die können doch gar nicht schlecht sein oder?
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