The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Complete & Unabridged) [Puffin Classics]

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Puffin Classics/Puffin Books/Published by The Penguin Group, London, New York, et al., 1994

0140367055 / 9780140367058

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277 pp. Nearly flawless copy with minimal external wear, crisp pages and clean text. Synopsis: Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who first appeared in publication in 1887. He was the creation of Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based consulting detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess and is renowned for his skillful use of astute observation, deductive reasoning and forensic skills to solve difficult cases. Conan Doyle wrote four novels and fifty-six short stories that feature Holmes. The first story, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the beginning of the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine in 1891; further series of short stories and two serialised novels appeared until 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1907, with a final case in 1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes' friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself, this including the Blanched Soldier, and two others are written in the third person. In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Adventure of the Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, whereas Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. Conan Doyle said that the character of Holmes was inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large conclusions from the smallest observations.…

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Titel
The Extraordinary Cases of Sherlock Holmes (Complete & Unabridged) [Puffin Classics]
Autor
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL
Verlag
Puffin Classics/Puffin Books/Published by The Penguin Group, London, New York, et al.
Erscheinungsjahr
1994
Zustand
Very Good
Einband
Trade Paperback
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0140367055
ISBN-13
9780140367058
Illustrator
Adrian Chesterman (Cover Illustration)
Auflage
Complete & Unabridged Edition
Druck
6th Printing
Abmessungen
8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
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Academic, Scholarly, Research, English & British Studies, Literature, History, Fiction-Mystery, Mysterious Fiction & Novel

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