Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle; Introduction; Genesis and Composition; Publication History; Reception; Context: The Autobiographical Tradition; Context: Historical; Context: Biographical; Memories and Adventures; Preface; Early Recollections; Under the Jesuits; Recollections of a Student; Whaling in the Arctic Ocean; My Voyage to West Africa; My First Experiences in Practice; My Start at Southsea; My First Literary Success; Pulling Up the Anchor; The Great Break; Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes; Norwood and Switzerland; Egypt in 1896; On the Edge of a Storm; An Interlude of Peace; The Start for South Africa; Days with the Army; Final Experiences in South Africa; An Appeal to the World’s Opinion; My Political Adventures; The Years Between the Wars; The Years Between the Wars (continued); Some Notable People; Some Recollections of Sport; To the Rocky Mountains in 1914; The Eve of War; A Remembrance of the Dark Years; Experiences on the British Front; Experiences on the Italian Front; Experiences on the French Front; Breaking the Hindenburg Line; The Psychic Quest; Appendix – Up to Date (1930); Illustrations; An Essay on the Text; Apparatus; Abbreviations used in the Apparatus; Emendations and Variations; Explanatory Notes.