Review:Through the Magic Door/Christopher Roden
This review of the books "Through the Magic Door" and "The White Company & Sir Nigel", by Arthur Conan Doyle was written by Christopher Roden and published in the A.C.D. - The Journal of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society (Vol. 10, may 2000).
This review welcomes new paperback reprints of Through the Magic Door and The White Company & Sir Nigel, stressing their value for readers discovering or returning to Arthur Conan Doyle. It praises the accessibility of these editions, notes the loss of some original illustrations, and especially highlights George MacDonald Fraser's introduction to the historical novels.
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Reviewed by Christopher Roden
Two welcome reprints of Conan Doyle material. Through the Magic Door is an everlasting Conan Doyle classic, with biographical material just as interesting as material he included in Memories and Adventures. This reprint lifts the plates from the original edition, but does not include the illustrations. Nonetheless, it will be welcomed by many newcomers to Conan Doyle's works who have been unable to lay in a copy of their own.
The reprint of The White Company & Sir Nigel is especially welcome, the more so for the highly enthusiastic introduction to the volume by George MacDonald Fraser. Fraser has long been known as a Conan Doyle enthusiast, and his writing here serves to confirm the fact.
Buy Through the Magic Door and The White Company as a pair from the Common Reader web site at <www.commonreader.com>, and you will receive a 10% discount. The web site is well worth checking out for other Conan Doyle titles, too.
- Article courtesy Christopher Roden, founder of The Arthur Conan Doyle Society (1989-2003).
