The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Langue : anglais

Edité par Penguin Books/Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, UK, et al., 1981

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323 pp. A great, almost spotlessly clean copy! Solidly and tightly bound, essentially and nearly flawless copy with minimal internal and external wear and use. Copy with crisp pages, clean text, and light shelf wear. Smooth covers. Minimal, light, slight or very mild browning, tanning, foxing or discoloration on page edges, not affecting text. Slightly creased spine. 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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Détails bibliographiques

Titre
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Auteur
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL
Éditeur
Penguin Books/Penguin Books Ltd., Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England, UK, et al.
Année de publication
1981
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Mass Market Paperback
Langue
anglais
Illustrateur
John Gorham (Cover Design)
Dimensions
12mo or 12° (Duodecimo): 6¾" x 7¾" tall
Catalogues du vendeur
Fiction-Crime Fiction, True Crime, Mystery, Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel, Literary Studies, Literary Theory & Lit. Criticsm

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