Through The Magic Door (Best Novel Classics)

A Book with a Book Library Inside! This book is a friendly, conversational tour of the legendary writer, Sherlock-Holmes-fame author Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite books, written as though he were literally and physically showing you his favorite bookcase, where his favorite authors and books reside. He seems to really enjoy reading a lot and he definitely thoroughly enjoys the books he has long-lived relationships with. He begins with praise of McCauley's essays, then praises the historical novels of Walter Scott. In Doyle's opinion Scott with Ivanhoe wrote the "second greatest" historical novel. The greatest? The Cloister and the Hearth. Arthur Conan Doyle's "Through the Magic Door" was serialized in 1906-07 when he was 48. Even if you don't end up reading the books he recommends, his quotes and descriptions in this book are amazing and inspiring. Books can transport you anywhere and teach you anything. And they can teach you the "line of thinking" of the author. They are tonic and nourishment for your soul and mind alike. And this book, which is kind of a book that comprises many books, can help you in that path tremendously. Bookworms will find this book a real treasure! A Nugget from the Book: 1. "I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more. You have left all that is vulgar and all that is sordid behind you. There stand your noble, silent comrades, waiting in their ranks. Pass your eye down their files. Choose your man. And then you have but to hold up your hand to him and away you go together into dreamland. Surely there would be something eerie about a line of books were it not that familiarity has deadened our sense of it. Each is a mummified soul embalmed in cere-cloth and natron of leather and printer's ink.Each cover of a true book enfolds the concentrated essence of a man. The personalities of the writers have faded into the thinnest shadows, as their bodies into impalpable dust, yet here are their very spirits at your command." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. 2. "Critics kind-never mind! Critics flatter-no matter! Critics blame-all the same! Critics curse-none the worse! Do your best- -- the rest!" Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Books for You: Tales of Terror and Mystery by Arthur Coanan Doyleshttps://www.createspace.com/6499707 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doylehttps://www.createspace.com/6498370 The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle https://www.createspace.com/6498594 The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doylehttps://www.createspace.com/6499304 The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doylehttps://www.createspace.com/6500007 The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doylehttps://www.createspace.com/6499480 The Open Boat and Other Stories by Stephen Cranehttps://www.createspace.com/6447605 A Sicilian Romance by Ann Radcliffehttps://www.createspace.com/6493459 The Aspern Papers by Henry Jameshttps://www.createspace.com/6495613 Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shawhttps://www.createspace.com/6497582

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Aug 15, 2016

Number of Pages: 104 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1537108786

ISBN-13: 9781537108780