by Arthur Conan Doyle · Valdemar · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477021322
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«Historias de la Antigüedad» is a collection of historical tales by Arthur Conan Doyle, published by Valdemar in paperback (208 pages, in Spanish).
It brings together short stories that recreate episodes of Antiquity: the retreat of the last Roman legion in Britain, the fate of the last Phoenician galley before Carthage, the arrival of the Huns at the Danube, the mutilation of Praxiteles' Venus, and the encounter between Ulysses and King David in Tyre. A genre also cultivated by Marcel Schwob and Borges.
Volume 26 of the El Club Diógenes series from Valdemar. Originally published in 1925 as «The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago».
Suitable for readers of historical fiction and classic tales, and for those who enjoy short adventure stories set in Antiquity.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a British writer and physician. He is best known for his four novels and fifty-six short stories about the fictional consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson, which are milestones in crime fiction, and for his first work featuring Professor Challenger, The Lost World (1912), which gave its name to a subgenre of speculative fiction. He was a prolific writer who produced over 200 stories and articles, four volumes of poetry, and a number of works for the stage. He was knighted by King Edward VII in the 1902 Coronation Honours.
