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For his part Conan Doyle acknowledged basing his detective stories on the model of Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin, and his anonymous narrator, and basing his character Sherlock Holmes on Joseph Bell, who in his use of " ratiocination " prefigured Poirot's reliance on his " little grey cells ".
Some Howard scholars believe this Conan to be a forerunner of the more famous character.
During this trip, he further conceived the character of Conan and also wrote the poem " Cimmeria ", much of which echoes specific passages in Plutarch's Lives.
Howard once describes him as having a hairy chest and, while comic book interpretations often portray Conan as wearing a loincloth or other minimalist clothing, Howard describes the character as wearing whatever garb is typical for the land and culture in which Conan finds himself.
In total, more than fifty novels and dozens of short stories featuring the Conan character have been written by authors other than Howard.
Conan Doyle stated that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who once lived in Birmingham, may have borrowed Baskerville's surname for one of his Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles – which, in turn, was borrowed by Umberto Eco for the character William of Baskerville in his best-selling novel, The Name of the Rose ( Sean Connery played the character in the film based on the book ).
* Micah Clarke, fictional character in the 1889 novel of the same name by Arthur Conan Doyle
He is probably best known for his character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.
Howard created Conan the Barbarian, in the pages of the Depression-era pulp magazine Weird Tales, a character whose pop-culture impact has been compared to such icons as Tarzan, Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond.
An early famous example in popular culture is the return of Sherlock Holmes: writer Arthur Conan Doyle killed off the popular character in an encounter with his foe Professor Moriarty, only to bring Holmes back, due in large part to audience response.
When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his most-beloved character Sherlock Holmes by plunging him to his death over the Reichenbach Falls with his arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, the public's demand for Holmes was so great that Doyle was compelled to bring him back to life in a subsequent story, where he details that Holmes had merely faked his death.
** Arthur Conan Doyle surprises the reading public by revealing in the story The Adventure of the Final Problem, published in this month's Strand Magazine, that his character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891.
** Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.
( Sherlock Holmes seems to be an actual example of a fictional character ; one might think there are many other characters Arthur Conan Doyle might have invented, though he actually invented Holmes.
* Tales of Conan ( 1955 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-collection containing the first of de Camp's " posthumous collaborations " with Howard, marking the beginning of his successful promotion of Howard's " Conan the Barbarian " character
* Conan the Adventurer ( 1966 ) ( with Robert E. Howard )-first of the paperback printings of the Howard / de Camp " Conan " collaborations, which ensured the success of the character and defined it for a generation
Introduced as a minor character in a non-fantasy historical story by Robert E. Howard, " The Shadow of the Vulture ", Red Sonya of Rogatino would later inspire a fantasy heroine named Red Sonja, who first appeared in the comic book series Conan the Barbarian written by Roy Thomas and illustrated by Barry Windsor-Smith.
One traditional approach in this form of fiction is for the main detective's principal assistant, the " Watson ", to be the narrator: this derives from the character of Dr Watson in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

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And the basic character of that liberalism has been spiritual rather than economic.
He has been seduced by the marvels of the unconscious and has lost interest in studying the surfaces of character.
A useful comment on his relation to his region may be made, I think, by noting briefly how in handling Southern materials and Southern problems he has deviated from the pattern set by other Southern authors while remaining faithful to the essential character of the region.
Any tragedy, he maintains, has six elements: plot, character, and thought ( the objects of imitation ), diction and melody ( the means of imitation ), and spectacle ( the manner of imitation ).
He has the temperament and the stage presence for a rousing villain and he sang with character and strong tone.
While each scene has its own character and completeness it must fit into the general sequence to which it belongs.
For general computer use access technology such as screen readers, screen magnifiers and refreshable Braille displays has been widely taken up along with standalone reading aids that integrate a scanner, optical character recognition ( OCR ) software, and speech software in a single machine.
Many theorems which are provable using choice are of an elegant general character: every ideal in a ring is contained in a maximal ideal, every vector space has a basis, and every product of compact spaces is compact.
** Tukey's lemma: Every non-empty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion.
Malzahar, a character from League of Legends, has a similar back story and Arabian theme that seems to be a direct reference to Alhazred, not to mention the obvious correlation between the two names.
Christie has also been parodied on screen, such as in the film Murder by Indecision, which featured the character " Agatha Crispy ".
The novel thus appears to be told by an unnamed narrator who gathers information from what he has personally seen and heard regarding the epidemic, as well as from the diary of another character, Tarrou, who makes observations about the events he witnesses.
* Pattern: A character who has walked the pattern can walk in shadow to any possible universe, and while there can manipulate probability.
* Logrus: A character who has mastered the Logrus can send out Logrus tendrils and pull themselves or objects through shadow.
The key words here are fair and eventually-if characters ' ranks are close, and the weaker character has obtained some advantage, then the weaker character can escape defeat or perhaps prevail.
Arau has made many appearances as a character actor in American and TV series and plays.
It has been mass produced on souvenirs, lent its name to a Superman villain, appeared on The Simpsons to demonstrate the redemption of a murderous character named Sideshow Bob, incorporated into Hare Krishna chants and adapted for Wicca ceremonies.
The character only has three lines in the film.
A passage in Voltaire's Candide has the book's eponymous main character meet the deposed Ahmed III while on a ship from Venice to Constantinople.
The second one has no obvious simple description ( using the same character set ) other than writing down the string itself, which has 64 characters.
The story of Ratoncito Pérez has been adapted into further literary works and movies since then, with the character of Alfonso XIII appearing in some.
The will has greatly puzzled historians, who have read it as a bizarre gesture of extreme piety uncharacteristic of Alfonso's character, one that effectively undid his life's work.

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