Sign of Four - Couverture souple

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0330244264 ISBN 13 : 9780330244268

Editeur : Macmillan, 1975

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

In this erudite and provocative edition, Shafquat Towheed offers fans of both Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle an intricate account of the intertextual histories at the heart of The Sign of Four. Arguing for the inextricability of its colonial plots with its work as detective fiction, Towheed builds a persuasive case for The Sign of Four as Mutiny fiction, positioning it as pivotal to the imperial career of 'British' fiction per se. Readers of this edition will be gripped by the colonial pathways Towheed reveals, the politics of citation he uncovers, and the entanglement of home and empire he tracks in the making of the novel. This is postcolonial interpretation at its very best. --Antoinette Burton

Perhaps the greatest of the Sherlock Holmes mysteries is this: that when we talk of him we invariably fall into the fancy of his existence. --T. S. Eliot

Présentation de l'éditeur

THE SIGN OF FOUR (1890) is the second novel featuring Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Doyle wrote four novels and 56 stories starring the fictional detective. The story is set in 1888. THE SIGN OF FOUR has a complex plot involving service in East India Company, India, the Indian Rebellion of 1857, a stolen treasure, and a secret pact among four convicts ("the Four" of the title) and two corrupt prison guards. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in A STUDY IN SCARLET. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 1975
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0330244264
• ISBN 13: 9780330244268
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible