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4/5 ManyBooks | 3.7/5 Goodreads Originally published 1897 Editor Arthur Conan Doyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Adaptations The House of Temperley (1913) Similar Arthur Conan Doyle books, Classical Studies books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896.
The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis, a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. The novel interweaves Rodney's coming-of-age story with that of his friend Boy Jim's boxing endeavors, and a large portion of it deals with the famous bare-knuckle boxers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, such as Jem Belcher, John Jackson, Daniel Mendoza, Dutch Sam, and others. The book includes vignettes of a number of historical personages, notably the Prince Regent, Lord Nelson, Sir John Lade, Lord Cochrane and Beau Brummell.
It was adapted into a 1913 silent film, The House of Temperley, directed by Harold M. Shaw.