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Arthur was born in Endinburgh, Scotland. He was raised by his mother who was an important figure to him, his father on the other hand was the contrary.
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At the age of nine he was sent to a bording school in England, where corporal punishment was normalized and brutal.
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He graduated at the age of seventeen.
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The firs thing he did after he left school was to co-sign the comittal papers of his father, who was seriously demented.
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Instead of studying an artistic career like the family tradition said he studied a medical career.
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Years later at university he wrote his first short story called "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley" and published it in a Endinburgh magazine. Later that year he published another story named The American Tale.
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At the age of twenty he was offered to be a surgeon in a ship that was going to the Artic Circle, years later in 1880 he returned to his studies and got his medicine degree.
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In august he married a woman called Louisa Hawkins.
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The main characters of this novel where Dr. Jhon Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
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Second book of the Sherlock Holmes series.
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Even beign diagnosed with Angina Pectoris he traveled to Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
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He died on Monday with all his family around him. His last words were "the greatest and most glorious adventure of all," wich he addressed to his wife.