Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II
The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here...
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The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume II, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781411431980 (1411431987)
Publish date: June 1st 2009
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Classics
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Classic Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Short Stories
Series: Sherlock Holmes -9
Love Sherlock Holmes. Like Poirot and Marple, he is a favorite detective.
On the whole the mysteries from the earlier stories were more interesting but I liked the Watson and Holmes dynamic more in the later stories. Vol II is probably about equal with Vol I in terms of racism. It has less use of the slur g***y, but 3GAB does have the n-word in it. If I were to rerea...
Almost three years ago exactly I set out to read every Sherlock Holmes story and novel, considering the length of the average story and the briefness of the novels I should have finished this long since, but, as my reviews attest, at times I could barely stand the bastard.Despite starting strong wit...
The Later Career of Sherlock Holmes The world’s most revered and famous fictional detective first appeared from the pen of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle almost a 130 years ago, but the author did not finish with his greatest creation until almost 40 years later even after unsuccessfully killing him off. ...