The Tragedy of the Korosko
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The Tragedy of the Korosko (1898) is a novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It was serialized a year earlier in The Strand magazine between May and December 1897, and was later turned into a 1909 play Fires of Fate.{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Publishers_Circular_and_Booksellers/eMpOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature |date=1897 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Company |pages=6 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Doyle |first=Arthur Conan |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Tragedy_of_the_Korosko/_lJAAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0&bsq=-wikipedia%201909%20fires%20fate |title=The Tragedy of the Korosko |date=1983 |publisher=Gaslight Publications |isbn=978-0-934468-47-3 |pages=181 |language=en}}
Plot summary
A group of European tourists are enjoying their trip to Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors. The novel contains a strong defence of British Imperialism and in particular the Imperial project in North Africa. It also reveals the very great suspicion of Islam felt by many Europeans at the time.
== Fires of Fate ==
Doyle later adapted his novel into a 1909 play Fires of Fate. The play was in turn twice adapted into films; a 1923 silent film and a 1932 talkie.
See also
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- In Desert and Wilderness (with a similar theme)
References
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External links
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Category:Novels by Arthur Conan Doyle
Category:Novels first published in serial form
Category:Works originally published in The Strand Magazine
Category:Novels set in the 1890s
Category:British novels adapted into plays
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