The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
By: Arthur Conan Doyle ; edited with an introduction by Richard Lancelyn Green.
Contributors: Green, Richard Lancelyn.
Edition: World's Classics paperback (2)
Series: The World's classics
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Oxford [England]; New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780192823786
Copyright date: 1993
Subjects: Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Private investigators -- England -- Fiction.; Detective and mystery stories, English.
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. The detective is at the height of his powers and the volume is full of famous cases, including 'The Red-Headed League', 'The Blue Carbuncle', and 'The Speckled Band'. Although Holmes gained a reputation for infallibility, Conan Doyle showed his own realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler—the woman—in the very first story, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'.
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Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxvii-xlii).
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