Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories

Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories - Paperback

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Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories - Paperback

Sherlock Holmes: Selected Stories - Paperback

by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Book Overview

by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Barry McCrea (Editor)

'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science'

For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in their appeal. The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, together with their housekeeper Mrs Hudson and their address at 221B Baker Street are as familiar today as when they made their first appearance in the late 1880s. The stories have been endlessly interpreted, adapted, and modernized, but still we return to Arthur Conan Doyle's originals.

This new selection of some of the best of Sherlock Holmes is designed to give readers a full sense of his world: the brooding fog of London, ruined heirs in creaking mansions, and hidden crimes in the farthest-flung corners of the British Empire. The stories take Holmes's career from its early days to its end, and include the book-length Sign of the Four. Barry McCrea's introduction investigates the currents that lie beneath the surface.

About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author Biography

Barry McCrea taught at Yale before moving to the University of Notre Dame. His novel, The First Verse was published in 2005; his most recent work is In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust (Columbia UP, 2011).

Number of Pages: 400
Dimensions: 0.8 x 7.6 x 5 IN
Publication Date: May 01, 2014
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Interest Level: Middle Grades, 4-8
Reading Level: 5.7
Point Value: 3
ISBN9780199672066
Author Arthur Conan Doyle
PublisherOxford University Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMay 2014
LanguageENG- English
Pages400
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceKids and Teens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and began to write stories while he was a student. Over his life he produced more than thirty books and 150 short stories, as well as poems, plays, and essays across a wide range of genres. His most famous creation is the detective Sherlock Holmes, whom he introduced in his first novel, A Study in Scarlet (1887), and last wrote about in short stories published in 1927.

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