The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales

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The Last Galley; Impressions and Tales is by Arthur Conan Doyle. The preface says that the volume includes within the same cover two styles of work which present an essential difference. The preface says that the second half of the collection consists of eight stories, which explain themselves, and that the first half is made up of a series of pictures of the past which maybe regarded as trial flights towards a larger ideal.

The text says that the tiger-striped flag of Carthage has sunk beneath the swirling surface, never more to be seen upon the face of the sea. A speaker describes a mirror in its silver frame as like a stage, brilliantly lit, in which a drama was in progress. A speaker stumbles down a strange, old-world corridor, a feeble flame throwing a dim circle of light around, and comes to a spot where the Roman tunnel opened into a water-worn cavern.

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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.