num_pages: 204
description: 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 centuries.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for creating Sherlock Holmes.
language: English
title: Rodney Stone
titlecomplete: Rodney Stone
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction, Gothic, 19th Century, Adventure, Historical, British Literature, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 238
publisher: Alan Rodgers Books