Rodney Stone (World Classics Unabridged)

<p>Rodney Stone is a Gothic mystery and boxing novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896.<br /><br />The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is taken to London by his uncle Sir Charles Tregellis a highly respected gentleman and arbiter of fashion who is on familiar terms with the most important people of Great Britain. The novel interweaves Rodney's coming-of-age story with that of his friend Boy Jim's boxing endeavors and a large portion of it deals with the famous bare-knuckle boxers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century such as Jem Belcher John Jackson Daniel Mendoza Dutch Sam and others. The book includes vignettes of a number of historical personages notably the Prince Regent Lord Nelson Sir John Lade Lord Cochrane and Beau Brummell.</p>