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What does honour mean in a world of boxing and high society?

Arthur Conan Doyle’s Rodney Stone brings boxing, honour, and high society into a Regency adventure set in the age of Napoleon. These are the book’s central attractions: the physical contest, the question of honour, and the social world beyond the ring.

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Rodney Stone

by Arthur Conan Doyle· 1896

A young man enters London's worlds of fashion and boxing.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

1859–1930 · British detective novelist

Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician born in Edinburgh in 1859. He practised medicine in England and wrote novels, short stories and histories. His Sherlock Holmes stories began with A Study in Scarlet in 1887. He also wrote The Lost World in 1912. He died in Crowborough, England, in 1930.

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