The Complete Sherlock Holmes Author: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Language: English | ISBN:
B00BJ64FU0 | Format: EPUB
The Complete Sherlock Holmes Description
Beautifully designed and carefully proofed for digital publication, this edition includes:
• 28 original illustrations by Sidney Paget done for the Strand Magazine, modern drawings of Frederic Dorr Steele, and unique illustrations of historical context;
• Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle;
• Table of Contents with Quick Navigation.
Table of Contents:
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of Four
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
The Valley of Fear
His Last Bow
This edition does not include the last stories from “The Case-book of Sherlock Holmes”, for which rights are unavailable in the US.
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- Print Length: 1096 pages
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- Language: English
- ASIN: B00BJ64FU0
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In Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created one of the world's best known and (arguably) most fully realized literary characters. Since Doyle's death, there have been plenty of people writing knockoffs of his stories. But with rare exceptions (Nicholas Meyer comes to mind), most have not lived up to the high standards Doyle set in at least the best of his Holmes tales.
This volume includes the complete canon of Doyle's original stories -- four novels and fifty-six short stories, from "A Study in Scarlet" to "His Last Bow." While there are a handful of cases that bore significantly on international affairs (e.g. "The Bruce-Partington Plans"), most of them are of interest simply because of that touch of the _outre_ that Holmes loved so much and that provided such stimulating material to the ideal reasoner.
There are some clunkers in the canon, of course, but the vast majority of these stories -- especially the earliest ones -- are just brilliant. If you are reading them for the first time, I envy you; the sturdy Dr. John Watson is about to introduce you to a new world, a world of Victorian gaslight and Stradivarius violins, of hansom cabs and cries of "The game's afoot!"
For in reading this volume you will find such classic tales as "The Red-Headed League" and "The Man With The Twisted Lip"; you will encounter the famous dog that did nothing in the night-time ("Silver Blaze") and several versions of Holmes's favorite maxim ("When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"); and you will meet one of the most fascinating and memorable characters ever to spring from the printed page: Holmes himself.
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