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Title: Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories
Condition: New
EAN: 9780199672066
ISBN: 9780199672066
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 10/04/2014
Item Height: 197mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 19mm
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0199672067
Description: 'Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science'For more than a century the Holmes stories have held a strange, almost inexplicable grip on the popular imagination. They are intimately associated with late Victorian and Edwardian society, yet curiously timeless in their appeal. The characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, together with their housekeeper Mrs Hudson and their address at 221B Baker Street are as familiar today as when they made their first appearance in the late 1880s. The stories have been endlessly interpreted, adapted, and modernized, but still it is to Arthur Conan Doyle's originals that we return. This new selection of some of the best of them is designed to give readers a full sense of their world: the brooding fog of London, ruined heirs in creaking mansions, and hidden crimes in the farthest-flung corners of the British Empire. The stories take Holmes's career from its early days to its close, and include the book-length Sign of the Four. Barry McCrea's introduction investigates the currents that lie beneath their surface.ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Book Series: Oxford World's Classics
Topic: Crime Thrillers & Mystery
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Contributor: Barry McCrea (Edited by)
Item Weight: 278g
Release Year: 2014

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