The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Cranfield (Editor)

Overview

The first scholarly edition of the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notes

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474477529
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	03/24/2023
Series:	The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a Scottish author best known for his classic detective fiction, although he wrote in many other genres including dramatic work, plays, and poetry. He began writing stories while studying medicine and published his first story in 1887. His Sherlock Holmes character is one of the most popular inventions of English literature, and has inspired films, stage adaptions, and literary adaptations for over 100 years.

Date of Birth:

May 22, 1859

Date of Death:

July 7, 1930

Place of Birth:

Edinburgh, Scotland

Place of Death:

Crowborough, Sussex, England

Education:

Edinburgh University, B.M., 1881; M.D., 1885

Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgements
Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle

Introduction
The Author
Composition
The Stories
Reception

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Silver Blaze
The Yellow Face
The Stockbroker’s Clerk
The ‘Gloria Scott’
The Musgrave Ritual
The Reigate Squares
The Crooked Man
The Resident Patient
The Greek Intepreter
The Naval Treaty
The Final Problem

Appendices
1. The Adventure of the Cardboard Box
2. Extract from ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’
An Essay on the Text
Apparatus
Abbreviations used in the Apparatus
Emendations and Variations

Explanatory Notes

Editorial Reviews

He is unique in simultaneously bringing down the curtain on an era and raising one on another, ushering in a genre of writing that... has never been surpassed. His own life, as footballer... eye surgeon, champion of injustice and investigator into the paranormal, is the stuff of legend. Personally, I would walk a mile in tight boots to read his letters to the milkman—Stephen Fry, The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection

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