The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Second Edition
Arthur Conan Doyle and Edited by Catherine Wynne
Series Edited by and Professor Darryl Jones
14 September 2023
ISBN: 9780198865759
448 pages
Paperback
196x129mm
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
Description
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of the Strand magazine, in which they were first published, and won immense popularity for Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson.
- In this collection of stories first published in The Strand Magazine, Sherlock Holmes is at the height of his powers
- The volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band', as well as the first appearance of Irene Adler
New to this edition
- This new edition provides a fresh new examination of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, with a focus on Conan Doyle's own medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective
- Complete with newly revised critical apparatus, including expansive explanatory notes on the text
- Part of a set of new, refreshed editions of all Sherlock Holmes stories
About the Author(s)
Arthur Conan Doyle and Edited by Catherine Wynne, Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literature and Visual Culture, University of Hull
Series Edited by and Professor Darryl Jones, Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture, Trinity College DublinDr Catherine Wynne is Reader in English at the University of Hull. She has published extensively on Conan Doyle and on nineteenth-century culture. The Colonial Conan Doyle was published in 2002 and her most recent work on Doyle ('Neo-Holmesian Fiction') was published in The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes in 2019. Her publications on Doyle focus on the Gothic, Empire and colonialism and trauma. She has most recently published a biography of war artist and traveller, Lady Butler.
Table of Contents
- A Scandal in Bohemia
A Case of Identity
The Red-Headed League
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Five Orange Pips
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Blue Carbuncle
The Speckled Band
The Engineer's Thumb
The Noble Bachelor
The Beryl Coronet
The Copper Beeches
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