Rodney Stone
''Rodney Stone'' is a Gothic fiction, Gothic mystery and boxing novel in Scotland, novel by Scottish writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle first published in 1896. The eponymous narrator is a Sussex country boy who is the son of a sailor and wishes to go to sea himself. He 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 endeavours. Jim has been brought up by a blacksmith whom he believes to be his uncle - the blacksmith Harrison was a famous former boxer and the 'nephew' wishes to fight too. A large portion of it deals with the famous bare-knuckle boxing, bare-knuckle boxers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, such as James Belcher, Jem Belcher, John Jackson (English boxer), John Jackson, Daniel Mendoza, Dutch Sam, and others. The book includes ...
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