The Great Shadow

The Great Shadow, also known as The Great Shadow and other Napoleonic Tales, is an action and adventure novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published in 1892 in J.W. Arrowsmith¿s Bristol Library. The novel takes place in the Napoleonic era on the English¿Scottish border city called West Inch.

Conan Doyle, the second of Charles Altamont and Mary Foley Doyle¿s 10 children, began seven years of Jesuit education in Lancashire, England, in 1868. After an additional year of schooling in Feldkirch, Austria, Conan Doyle returned to Edinburgh. Through the influence of Dr. Bryan Charles Waller, his mother¿s lodger, he prepared for entry into the University of Edinburgh¿s Medical School. He received Bachelor of Medicine and Master of Surgery qualifications from Edinburgh in 1881 and an M.D. in 1885 upon completing his thesis, ¿An Essay upon the Vasomotor Changes in Tabes Dorsalis.¿

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