Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 284 p. Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This Companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the late-Victorian and modernist periods; on one hand bearing the imprint of a range of...
Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 284 p. Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This Companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the late-Victorian and modernist periods; on one hand bearing the imprint of a range of...
Mysterious Press, 2017. — 608 p. Everyone knows Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created a unique literary character who has remained popular for over a century and is appreciated more than ever today. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town British doctor in the 1880s, into such a lasting success, despite the author’s own attempt to escape his...
Routledge, 2022. — 192 p. First published in 1951, My Dear Holmes is a biography of Sherlock Holmes, which originated from the author’s re-reading of the Sherlock Holmes stories to his daughter, supplies answers to mysteries such as when was Holmes born? Which was his university? How many times was Watson married and in what years? Why did he leave Baker Street without a word...
Pen and Sword History, 2022. — 159 p. You may have been introduced to the magic of the greatest of English detectives by reading the books by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle or perhaps watching some of the hundreds of films or TV shows that feature the extraordinary adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John H. Watson - now, this unique book offers a detailed itinerary for actually...
L.: Oldcastle Books, 2013. - 160p.
With the recent successes of Robert Downey, Jr. on the big screen and Benedict Cumberbatch on TV, the popularity of Sherlock Holmes is riding high and here is the essential guide
Who is Holmes? The world's most famous detective, a drug addict with a heart as cold as ice, or a millstone around the neck of his creator? He's all of these...
Little, Brown Book Group, 2011. — 208 p. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes appears in four novels and fifty-six short stories. Although Holmes was not the first literary detective, he continues to have a perennial allure as the ultimate sleuth. As Holmes is being re-introduced to a new audience through TV and film, Cawthorne introduces the general...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 176 p. This book examines the developments in British serial detective fiction which took place in the seven years when Sherlock Holmes was dead. In December 1893, at the height of Sherlock’s popularity with the Strand Magazine’s worldwide readership, Arthur Conan Doyle killed off his detective. At the time, he firmly believed that Holmes would not...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021. — 204 p. This collection re-examines the works and life of Arthur Conan Doyle from multiple disciplinary perspectives. It proposes new ways of studying Conan Doyle, and considers overlooked or neglected aspects of his oeuvre, offering fresh perspectives on the multiple genres of his fiction and his relationship to contemporary writers and...
Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. — 235p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-98290-8. This book analyzes the four novels and fifty-six stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle describing the adventures and discoveries of Sherlock Holmes. Michael J. Crowe suggests that nearly all the Holmes stories exhibit the pattern known as a Gestalt shift, in which suddenly Holmes’s efforts...
Wiley, 2010. - 360 pages. Part I: Elementary Beginnings and Background. A Snapshot of Sherlock Holmes and the Stories That Made Him Famous. The Great Detective and His Life in Crime. Arthur Conan Doyle: The Doctor Who Created the Detective. Life in the Days of London Fog. Part II: What a Bunch of Characters! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Cops, Landladies, and Others: The...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 250 p. Reveals the secrets and stories that lie beneath the surface of Watson's narratives The Case of Sherlock Holmes uncovers what is untold, partly told, wrongly told, or deliberately concealed in Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes saga. This engaging study uses a scholarly approach, combining close reading with historicism, to read the...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 288 p. — ISBN: 978-0199674947. From the early stories, to the great popular triumphs of the Sherlock Holmes tales and the Professor Challenger adventures, the ambitious historical fiction, the campaigns against injustice, and the Spiritualist writings of his later years, Conan Doyle produced a wealth of narratives. He had a worldwide reputation...
History Press, 2015. A biography of the real-life detective who may have inspired Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. Who was the Victorian super-sleuth "Paddington" Pollaky? In fiction, he has featured in a Gilbert & Sullivan opera and in the bestselling novel The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher. In reality, he was a contradiction: a man of mystery who tried to keep out of the...
McFarland and Company, 2016. — 208 p. Nearly 130 years after the introduction of Sherlock Holmes to readers, the Great Detective's identity is being questioned, deconstructed, and reconstructed more than ever. Readers and audiences, not to mention scholars and critics, continue to analyze who Sherlock Holmes is or has become and why and how his identity has been formed in a...
Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd., 1993. — 256 p. — ISBN 0-88924-246-1, 978-0-88924-246-3. Here in one convenient book by a noted Sherlockian scholar is everything needed for the study and enjoyment of the Holmes canon: information on the stories and their publishing history; an assessment of a century of illustrators; a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle and a bibliography of...
Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd., 1993. — 252 p. — ISBN 0-88924-246-1, 978-0-88924-246-3. Here in one convenient book by a noted Sherlockian scholar is everything needed for the study and enjoyment of the Holmes canon: information on the stories and their publishing history; an assessment of a century of illustrators; a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle and a bibliography of...
Simon & Pierre Publishing Co. Ltd., 1993. — 252 p. — ISBN 0-88924-246-1, 978-0-88924-246-3. Here in one convenient book by a noted Sherlockian scholar is everything needed for the study and enjoyment of the Holmes canon: information on the stories and their publishing history; an assessment of a century of illustrators; a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle and a bibliography of...
Simon & Pierre, 1984. — 208 p. — ISBN 0-88924-142-2, 978-0-88924-142-8. In Bed with Sherlock Holmes provides a witty and well-researched discussion of the sexual elements in the Sherlock holmes stories, and in Conan Doyle's own life. An expert commentator on all things Victorian, Doyle also reflects that period's attitudes toward sex and erotic love. This commentary will make...
Harper Collins, 2007. — 720 p. This extraordinary annotated collection of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's private correspondence offers unique insight into one of the world's most popular authors. Detailing Conan Doyle's life from his beginnings as a country doctor to his struggle with the success of Sherlock Holmes and his ultimate calling as the foremost spokesman for Spiritualism,...
Intellect, 2014. — 164 p. Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heartthrob out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from the moment of his first appearance in 1887. The...
Skyhorse, 2020. — 192 p. — ISBN-10 1510749608. The Illustrated Guide to the Famous Cases, Infamous Adversaries, and Ingenious Methods of the Great Detective. Over a century since his first appearance in print, Sherlock Holmes remains an iconic figure today. This unique companion is a collector's dream, allowing fans to delve into the criminal environment of foggy, gas-lit...
М.: Альфа-М, 2006. — 543 с. — ISBN: 5-98281-087-8. В очерках известного филолога и театроведа, писателя и переводчика Ю.И. Кагарлицкого (1926 - 2000) живой взгляд на литературный и общекультурный процессы счастливо сочетается с глубоким анализом. Книга, посвященная значимым и ярким фигурам английской литературы и театра трех последних столетий, адресована...
Биография; литературоведение. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2001. — 400 с. — ISBN: 5-227-01390-X. Уникальное издание, основанное на достоверном материале, почерпнутом автором из писем, дневников, записных книжек Артура Конан Дойла, а также из подлинных газетных публикаций и архивных документов. Вы узнаете множество малоизвестных фактов о жизни и творчестве писателя, о блестящем...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2001. — 400 с. — ISBN 5-227-01390-X. Уникальное издание, основанное на достоверном материале, почерпнутом автором из писем, дневников, записных книжек Артура Конан Дойла, а также из подлинных газетных публикаций и архивных документов. Вы узнаете множество малоизвестных фактов о жизни и творчестве писателя, о блестящем расследовании им реальных уголовных дел,...
Salamandra P.V.V - 2014. — 20 с. Книга из серии "Новая шерлокиана", вып. 14. В издании полностью воспроизводится редкая брошюра психиатра М. М. Маевского "Конан-Дойль: приключения Шерлока Холмса". Впервые изданная в Вильно в 1904 году, она представляет собой любопытный образчик ранней русской шерлокианы.
Учебное пособие. — Чехов: Центр образовательного и научного консалтинга, 2016. — 44 с. — ISBN 978-5-905963-56-8. Это учебное пособие предназначено для студентов и аспирантов, изучающих страноведение Великобритании и США, лингвокультурологию, английскую и американскую литературу, является частью учебно-методического комплекса по лингвокультурологии и анализу дискурса,...
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