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The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Selected Stories) [Wordsworth Classics]
by Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL (Author); David Stuart Davies (Edited, Selected & Introduction by)
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Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK: Wordsworth Classics/Wordsworth Editions Limited, 1998. 2nd Printing. Trade Paperback. Like New. 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall. Robert Mathias (Cover Design); John Atkinson Grimshaw (Cover Illustration). 397 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially flawless copy with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear. 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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- Title
- The Best of Sherlock Holmes (Selected Stories) [Wordsworth Classics]
- Author
- Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, KStJ, DL (Author); David Stuart Davies (Edited, Selected & Introduction by)
- Illustrator
- Robert Mathias (Cover Design); John Atkinson Grimshaw (Cover Illustration)
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1853267481
- ISBN 13
- 9781853267482
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Classics/Wordsworth Editions Limited
- Place of Publication
- Ware, Hertfordshire, England, UK
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 397
- Keywords
- Fiction, Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel, Contemporary & Modern Fiction & Novel, Classic Fiction & Novel, Crime Fiction & Novel, True Crime, Mysterious Fiction & Novel, Mystery, Novella, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, K
- Size
- 8vo or 8° (Medium Octavo): 7¾" x 9¾" tall
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