The Sign of Four - Couverture souple

Doyle, A Conan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1615341722 ISBN 13 : 9781615341726

Editeur : Ezreads Publications, LLC, 2009

Synopsis

The story is set in 1887 or 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 a guard and three convicts. It presents the detective's drug habit and humanizes him in a way that had not been done in the first novel, A Study in Scarlet. It also introduces Doctor Watson's future wife, Mary Morstan.

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: Large Print is written in font size 16. Also available is The Sign of Four: Extra Large Print written in bold, font size 24

Sherlock Holmes has rarely been bettered than in The Sign of Four, a classic tale of greed, murder and mystery.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Ezreads Publications, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1615341722
• ISBN 13: 9781615341726
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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