The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Paperback

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Paperback

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Paperback

by Arthur Conan Doyle , Darryl Jones
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by Arthur Conan Doyle (Author), Catherine Wynne (Editor), Darryl Jones (Author)

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including The Red-Headed League', The Blue Carbuncle', and The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler - the Woman - in the very first story, A Scandal in Bohemia'.

Catherine Wynne's introduction reappraises the stories by looking at Conan Doyle's medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective. This edition also features completely revised explanatory notes to reflect the most recent scholarship on Conan Doyle and Victorian Literature.

ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range 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, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author Biography

Arthur Conan Doyle, , Catherine Wynne, Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture, University of Hull

Dr Catherine Wynne is Reader in English at the University of Hull. She has published extensively on Conan Doyle and on nineteenth-century culture. The Colonial Conan Doyle was published in 2002 and her most recent work on Doyle ('Neo-Holmesian Fiction') was published in The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes in 2019. Her publications on Doyle focus on the Gothic, Empire and colonialism and trauma. She has most recently published a biography of war artist and traveller, Lady Butler.
Number of Pages: 448
Publication Date: June 19, 2024
ISBN9780198865759
Author Arthur Conan Doyle , Darryl Jones
PublisherOxford University Press, USA
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedJune 2024
Edition2
LanguageENG- English
Pages448
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Arthur Conan Doyle
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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Darryl Jones's other publications include Horror: A Thematic History in Fiction and Film (London: Arnold; New York: OUP, 2002).

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