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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

By Arthur Conan Doyle
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is the series of short stories that made the fortunes of The Strand Magazine, in which they were first... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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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.

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It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

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 realism and feminism by having the great detective defeated by Irene Adler—the Woman—in the very first story, 'A Scandal in Bohemia'.

Catherine Wynne's introduction reappraises the stories by looking at Conan Doyle's medical background and its influence on the creation of the famous detective. This edition also features completely revised explanatory notes to reflect the most recent scholarship on Conan Doyle and Victorian Literature.

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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198865759

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 July 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Contributors:

  • Edited by Catherine Wynne
  • General editor Professor Darryl Jones

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 195.0mm

Weight: 256g

Pages: 368

Collections

Arthur Conan Doyle Classic Fiction Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

Dr Catherine Wynne is Reader in English at the University of Hull. She has published extensively on Conan Doyle and on nineteenth-century culture. The Colonial Conan Doyle was published in 2002 and her most recent work on Doyle ('Neo-Holmesian Fiction') was published in The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes in 2019. Her publications on Doyle focus on the Gothic, Empire and colonialism and trauma. She has most recently published a biography of war artist and traveller, Lady Butler.

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