Nick Rennison Bücher

Sherlock Holmes – Die unautorisierte Biographie • Ein literarisches Porträt des berühmten Detektivs • Ein Lesegenuss für Krimileser und Sherlock-Holmes-Fans • Witzig, very british und seriös recherchiert • Die Parodie einer echten Biographie Als Arthur Conan Doyle 1886 seine erste Sherlock-Holmes-Geschichte schrieb, ahnte er nicht, welchen Ruhm er mit dieser Figur erlangen würde: Der eigenwillige Detektiv mit Pfeife und Tweedmütze wurde einer der bekanntesten Titelhelden der Literatur. Die spannenden Kriminalfälle des wohl populärsten Detektivs aller Zeiten erreichten weltweit Millionenauflagen und machten Doyle zum reichen Mann. Die Figur des Sherlock Holmes erlangte Kultstatus – heute stehen mehr als 200 Fan-Websites im Netz, Sherlock-Holmes-Gesellschaften gibt es in aller Welt. Für alle Fans, die mit den von Dr. Watson und Arthur Conan Doyle überlieferten Fakten schon immer unzufrieden waren, hat Nick Rennison nun eine vollständige und detaillierte, wenn auch leider unautorisierte Biographie von Sherlock Holmes vorgelegt. So unterhaltsam wie überzeugend gelingt es ihm, Bekanntes mit Imaginärem zu verknüpfen. Rennison wertet nicht nur Sherlock Holmes' literarische Abenteuer sorgfältig aus und recherchiert historische Hintergründe, er belegt auch akribisch, wo es Quellen gab und wo sie fehlen. So augenzwinkernd die Methoden biographischen Schreibens auch vom Autor eingesetzt werden, bei der Lektüre muss man sich manches Mal vergegenwärtigen, dass es sich tatsächlich nur um die Lebensgeschichte einer fiktiven Figur handelt.

Connecting people with places, London's distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked.

Was there ever a real Robin Hood? Nick Rennison looks at the candidates who have been proposed over the years, from petty thieves to Knights Templar, before moving on to examine the many ways in which Robin Hood has been portrayed in literature and on the screen. He began as the hero of dozens of late medieval ballad, and more recently has been portrayed as everything from proto-socialist man of the people to anarchist thug. As the twenty-first century nears the end of its second decade, Robin Hood is still very much with us.

Pocket Essentials is a dynamic series of books that are concise, lively, and easy to read. Packed with facts as well as expert opinions, each book has all the key information you need to know about such popular topics as film, television, cult fiction, history, and more. Freud was one of the giants of 20th century thought. His ideas have been hugely influential not only in psychology but in all the social sciences and the arts. This looks at Freud's life from his birth in 1856 to his death in Hampstead in 1939. Each of Freud's major works is summarized, his central ideas are explored, and controversies over his methods and practices are examined. Did he, as some recent critics have alleged, turn his back on evidence of genuine child abuse in 1890s Vienna and prefer instead to ascribe it to fantasy and wish fulfilment? What were the reasons behind his terrible quarrel with Carl Gustav Jung? Does his "talking cure" of psychoanalysis actually work?

Every day thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus— yet Peter Mark Roget, one of the most remarkable men of the 19th century, did not even begin the great work of classification which bears his name until he was 70. Before that, Roget had already made his own contributions to knowledge in a dozen different fields such as anatomy, mathematics, education, and optics, including papers on persistence of vision which had later impact on the development of motion pictures. From his involvement in the foundation of the University of London to his books on magnetism, galvanism, and physiology, this biography reveals the full story of Roget's impact on the great issues and the great personalities of the 19th century, and recounts the forgotten life behind one of the most famous of all reference books.

London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centuries these misfit individualists have had a name. They have been called Bohemians. This book is an entertaining, anecdotal history of Bohemian London. A guide to its more colourful inhabitants. Rossetti and Swinburne, defying the morality of high Victorian England. Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley in the decadent 1890s. The Bloomsburyites and the Bright Young Things.

More than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Mile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley, and Nevil Shute, are arranged in alphabetical order, each with a short article on style, influences, settings, theme, along with a list of their salient works. At the end of each entry, a Read On" section directs readers to similar works by other authors."

The book presents a comprehensive overview of contemporary British novelists, highlighting prominent authors such as Iain Banks, Jeanette Winterson, and Salman Rushdie. Each entry provides essential biographical details and insightful analyses of their major works and themes. With extensive cross-referencing and recommendations for further reading, it serves as an invaluable resource for students and enthusiasts of modern British fiction, offering a clear entry point into the diverse literary landscape of contemporary Britain.

It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady is not pleased. The visitor's arrival pitches Carver and Quint headlong into an elaborate mystery which comes to centre on the existence (or not) of a lost text in Ancient Greek, one that may reveal the whereabouts of the treasure hoard of Philip II of Macedonia. Two deaths soon ensue as master and manservant follow what clues they can grasp in the roughest and most genteel parts of the teeming metropolis, with the whiff of cordite and blackmail never far from their nostrils. The scene shifts to Athens and the wilder fastness of a Greece gripped by political unrest as Carver and Quint join forces with Adam's former Cambridge tutor in an attempt to track down the elusive text. But nothing is quite what it seems, and no one involved is prepared for the final, shocking denouement amidst the extraordinary hilltop monasteries of Meteora...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled streets of late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. Yet Holmes and Watson were not the only ones solving mysterious crimes and foiling the plans of villainous masterminds in Victorian and Edwardian England. There were countless imitators in the genre, and this volume highlights some of those 'Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'.