Owen Dudley Edwards is a recognized expert on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, P. G. Wodehouse, and Oscar Wilde. His work delves into the themes and styles that define the contributions of these literary giants. As a university lecturer and general editor for the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series, he offers profound insights into their literary legacies. His approach is marked by analytical depth and a keen understanding of literary nuances.
Owen Dudley Edwards discusses reading, children's radio, comics, films and book-related play-activity in relation to value systems, the child's perspective versus the adult's perspective, the development of sophistication, retention and loss of pre-war attitudes and their post-war fate.
C.C. O'Brien's early writings showcase his mature and insightful political philosophy, establishing him as a prominent thinker. This collection, edited by Professor Edwards, features O'Brien's profound discourses on various topics, including Ireland, Ulster, diplomacy, the United Nations, and Africa. It highlights his precient observations and contributions to political thought, offering readers a glimpse into the foundational ideas that have shaped his later work.
Imaginary Friendship is the first in-depth study of the onset of the American Revolution through the prism of friendship, focusing on future US president John Adams and leading Loyalist Jonathan Sewall. The book is part biography, revealing how they shaped each other's progress, and part political history, exploring their intriguing dangerous quest to clean up colonial politics. Literary history examines the personal dimension of discourse, resolving how Adams's presumption of Sewall's authorship of the Loyalist tracts Massachusettensis influenced his own magnum opus, Novanglus. The mystery is not why Adams presumed Sewall was his adversary in 1775 but why he was impelled to answer him.
In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with bark and sell the corpse to Dr. Robert Knox, an ambitious Edinburgh anatomist.