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Nationality of Author:
"Scottish"
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Work title:
"A Study in Scarlet [originally, "A Tangled Skein" in Beeton's Christmas Annual]"
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Literary Period:
"Aestheticism and Decadence"
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"Nineteenth Century"
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"Victorian"
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Metaphor Category:
"Uncategorized"
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Date: 1887
"You see, he explained, I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)
Date: 1887
"A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it."
preview | full record— Doyle, Arthur Conan (1859-1930)