Return of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Classics)

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

ISBN 10: 1853260584 / ISBN 13: 9781853260582

Edité par Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1993

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• Titre: Return of Sherlock Holmes (Wordsworth Classics)
• Éditeur: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1853260584
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781853260582
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: acceptable

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Synopsis

With an Introduction by John S. Whitley, University of Sussex.

After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls, the great detective reappears, to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House.

The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, from which our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive.

This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes newly typeset from the original copies of The Strand Magazine The three books present all the Holmes stories in order of first publication.

Biographie de l'auteur

Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh, Scotland into an Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his medical degree from Edinburgh University in 1881. He worked as a surgeon on a whaling boat and also as a medical officer on a steamer travelling between Liverpool and West Africa. He then settled in Portsmouth on the English south coast and divided his time between medicine and writing. He is most noted for creating the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes and writing stories about him which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet', published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in 1887. This later led to a contract writing more Sherlock Holmes stories for the Strand magazine. It was in these early stories that he developed the character of Sherlock Holmes. It was a character that fascinated the reading public and he soon became one of the best-loved fictional characters. In 1893, Conan Doyle killed off Holmes, hoping to concentrate on more serious writing. A public outcry later made him resurrect Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle also wrote a number of other novels, including 'The Lost World' and various non-fictional works. Arthur Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.