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Questions and Tasks 
1.
Describe the Edwardian period in English literature.
2.
What does the theory “art for art’s sake” mean in literature and art? What is your own 
opinion on this subject?
3.
Comment on Thomas Hardy’s ”My poetry was revolutionary in the sense that I meant to 
avoid the jewelled line. ...” 
4. Who did Thomas Hardy write about in his novels? 
5. Who was the leader of the Aesthetic movement in English literature? 
6. Call the most popular works by Oscar Wilde. 
7. What does Oscar Wilde describe in his “The Picture of Dorian Gray? 
8. What kind of literary works were created at the end of the 19th century and to what literary 
trends did they belong? 
9. What vices in the society of his time does Oscar Wilde expose in his plays? 
10. Why do we appreciate Oscar Wilde’s works? 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930) 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a British writer, who created Sherlock Hol-mes, the world’s best 
known detective. Millions of readers are delighted in his ability to solve crimes by an amazing use 
of reason and observation. 
Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He was a doctor and began practicing medicine in 
1882, but his practice was not successful. Sherlock Holmes came into being while the young doctor 
waited vainly for patients. Doyle amused himself during those long hours by writing stories about a 
“scientific” detective who solved cases by his amusing power of 
deduction. His early stories were not very popular, but he won 
great success with his first Holmes novel “”A Study in Scarlet”
(1887).
The author modeled Holmes on a real person, a tall, wiry 
surgeon who had the reputation of being able to tell a person’s 
occupation just by looking at him. Holmes appeared in 56 short 
stories, written by Doyle, and three other novels: “The Sign of 
Four” (1890), “The Hound of the Baskervilles”(1902), and ”The 
Valley of Fear” (1915). Later, growing tired of writing Holmes 

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stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a story in which the detective was killed by the Professor 
Mariarty mentioned at the beginning of “The Adventure of the Norwood Builder”. But Holmes 
was so popular that public demand forced the author to bring him back to life in “The Return of 
Sherlock Holmes” 
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote historical novels, romances, and plays. At last he left 
fiction to study and lecture on spiritualism (communication with spirits).