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Title: The Usher of Lea House School Title Record # 73244
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Date: 1899-04-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: "The narrator gets a job at a dodgy sounding school in Hampstead and is astonished at the rudeness with which the only other master treats the Head. Things come to a head when he hears them fighting and intrudes, only to discover the repellent master is the Head's son!" (Books & Boots)
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Other Titles

Variant Titles Translations
Year Title
1899 The Story of the Latin Tutor [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1919 The Usher of Lea House School [as by A. Conan Doyle]
1968 The Usher of Lea House School [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
Year Language Title
1912Translated by Louis Labat, first in Arthur Conan Doyle's collection La Main brune, Pierre Lafitte, "Les romans d'aventures et d'action", 1912, under the title "L'étrange collègue".
French L'étrange professeur
1959Translated by Pierre Vigneaux
French Le professeur de Lea House [as by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle]
1989Translated by Pierre Vigneaux.
French Le professeur de Lea House [as by Conan Doyle]

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The Strand Magazine, April 1899 1899-04-00 ed. Editors of The Strand Magazine, H. Greenhough Smith        
unknown?The publication record was created from a secondary source and the publication format is unknown.
mag  
Round the Fire Stories 1908-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle The McClure Company     3+
356
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Round the Fire Stories 1908-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Smith, Elder & Co.  
6/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
382
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 1919-00-00 A. Conan Doyle George H. Doran     254
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 1925-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle George H. Doran  
$0.90?$: US dollar
254
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 1925-00-00 A. Conan Doyle George H. Doran (The Conan Doyle Stories #4)  
$0.90?$: US dollar
254
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1929-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray  
20/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1939-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1940-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1945-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1949-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray  
7/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1951-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1956-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
Œuvres complètes XII 1959-05-11 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Robert Laffont     627
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
omni  
The Conan Doyle Stories 1960-00-00 Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray     xii+
1201
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
coll  
The Ring of Thoth: and Other Stories 1968-00-00 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle John Murray 0-7195-1778-8
5/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
190
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Le train perdu 1982-03-00 Arthur Conan Doyle
10/18?Dix/Dix-huit
(L'aventure insensée #1482)
2-264-00425-8   230+
[9]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Jim Harter Checkmark
Les exploits du Pr Challenger et autres aventures étranges 1989-03-00 Conan Doyle Robert Laffont (Bouquins) 2-221-05630-2
F120.00?F: French frank
1155
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
omni  
Round the Fire Stories 1991-05-00 Arthur Conan Doyle Chronicle Books 0-87701-883-9
$9.95?$: US dollar
226
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Alex Laurant  
The Great Keinplatz Experiment and Other Tales of Twilight and the Unseen 2010-06-11 A. Conan Doyle Project Gutenberg 32777
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Round the Fire Stories 2015-12-22 Arthur Conan Doyle MysteriousPress.com / Open Road 978-1-4804-5343-2
$0.99?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
Round the Fire Stories 2017-02-04 Arthur Conan Doyle Project Gutenberg 54109
$0.00?$: US dollar
 
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF.
coll  
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