高二英语Unit15 A famous detective知识精讲 人教版.docVIP

高二英语Unit15 A famous detective知识精讲 人教版 一. 本周教学内容： Unit 15 A famous detective I. Background The Arthur Conan Doyle Arthur Conan Doyle was born at Picardy Place , Edinburgh , as the son of Charles Altamont Doyle , a civil servant in the Edinburgh Office of Works , and Mary （Foley）Doyle . Both of Doyle’s parents were Roman Catholics . Doyle’s mother was interested in literature , and she encouraged his son to take to books . Doyle read voluminously . At the age of fourteen he had learned French so that he read Jules Verne in the author’s original language . Doyle was educated in Jesuit schools . Doyle qualified as doctor in 1885. After graduation Doyle practiced medicine as an eye specialist at Southsea near Porsmouth in Hampshire until 1891 when he became a full time writer . Doyle had produced his first story , an illustrated tale of a man and a tiger , at the age of six . Doyle’s first story about Holmes , A STUDY IN SCARLET , was published in 1887 in Beeton Christmas Annual . The novel was written in three weeks in 1886 . The second Sherlock Holmes story , The Sign of the Four’ , was written for the Lippincott’s Magazine . The Strand Magazine started to publish The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes’ from July 1891 . Holmes’s address at Mrs. Hudson’s house , 221 B Baker Street , London , became soon the most famous London street in literature . During the South African war （1899－1902）Doyle served for a few months as senior physician at a field hospital , and wrote THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA , in which he defended England’s policy . Doyle was knighted in 1902 and in 1900 and 1906 he also ran unsuccessfully for Parliament . Fourteen months after his long-invalided wife Louisa died , Conan Doyle married in 1907 his second wife , Jean Leckie . Doyle supported the existence of ?little people?and spent more than a million dollars on their cause . In 1925 he opened the Psychic Bookshop in London . Doyle died on July 7 , 1930 from heart disease at his hom