Sherlock Holmes

The Novels

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Dirda

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Penguin
18 November 2015

Classic crime; Sherlock Holmes

All four of Arthur Conan Doyle's legendary Sherlock Holmes novels, collected in a unique Graphic Deluxe edition with an introduction by Michael Dirda.

In 1886, an unsuccessful ophthalmologist on the southern coast of England decided to try his hand at writing a detective story. Unlike his historical romances, which required the utmost care, this could be dashed off quickly. The first draft, featuring a Mr. Sherrinford Holmes, was a bit rough around the edges, but with a little revision, something astonishing emerged: Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Watson, and A Study in Scarlet. As if with no warning, they sprung forth from their creator's head, fully-formed in a new style so well-defined it felt immediately like an established genre.

Their partnership cemented within pages of the book's opening-the sum of their parts accomplishing far more than they could apart. Sporting his signature billowing coat and pipe in hand, the genius investigator Holmes captivated readers with his alluring melancholy and superhuman intuition, while Watson remained ever the perfect foil, a classic Victorian gentleman with brilliant intellect.

Collected here are all four Holmes novels - A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The Valley of Fear-tracing the origins of the pair up through their greatest showdowns with arch-enemy Professor Moriarty. Set in the seductive shadow-world of Victorian London, they are at once an indelible portrait of their time and immortal stories unmarred by passing time.

Though endlessly reinterpreted, reinvented and imitated, they have never been surpassed: the stories of Holmes and Watson lives on as immediate and original in our time as in their own.

By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Introduction by: Michael Dirda
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 145mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 659g
ISBN: 9780143107132
ISBN 10: 0143107135
Pages: 800
Publication Date: 18 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Edinburgh where he qualified as a doctor, but it was his writing which brought him fame, with the creation of Sherlock Holmes, the first scientific detective. He was also a convert to spiritualism and a social reformer who used his investigative skills to prove the innocence of individuals. Michael Dirda is a Pulitzer Prize-winning critic for the Washington Post. He is the author of two collections of literary journalism and several books on authors and reading, including On Conan Doyle; or, The Whole Art of Storytelling, which received the 2012 Edgar Award in the Best Critical/Biographical category. His journalism and reviews also appear in the New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, and various other publications. He also introduced the Penguin Classics edition of Robertson Davies's The Manticore.

Reviews for Sherlock Holmes: The Novels

Every writer owes something to Holmes. --T. S. Eliot [Holmes] is probably the only literary creation since the creations of Dickens which has really passed into the life and language of the people. --G. K. Chesterton -- T.S. Eliot