Quando o mundo gritou: Um caso do Professor Challenger

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Overview

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle já era o escritor consagrado pelos casos do detetive Sherlock Holmes quando deu início a uma série de aventuras vividas pelo professor George Edward Challenger. O conto Quando o mundo gritou, que integra o livro A terra da bruma, antecipa temas que viriam a se transformar em rotina, como as possibilidades e os limites de exploração do globo, o caráter mercantil da ciência e a espetacularização dos eventos na mídia.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788537814321
Publisher:	Expresso Zahar
Publication date:	12/12/2014
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	62
File size:	331 KB
Language:	Portuguese

About the Author

A prolific author of books, short stories, poetry, and more, the Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for the creation of one of literature’s most vivid and enduring characters: Sherlock Holmes. Through detailed observation, vast knowledge, and brilliant deduction, Holmes and his trusted friend, Dr. Watson, step into the swirling fog of Victorian London to rescue the innocent, confound the guilty, and solve the most perplexing puzzles known to literature.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885