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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle author Jonathan Cranfield editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Edinburgh University Press

Published:24th Mar '23

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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 First new annotated edition for twenty-five years Detailed notes explore the historical and biographical references within each story Definitive textual apparatus collating the original magazine stories, the first book edition and Conan Doyle's author's edition of 1903 Ideal for students and scholars interested in Arthur Conan Doyle, detective fiction, popular fiction, empire fiction, late-Victorian magazine culture and British authorship This exciting volume is the first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Includes the only current textual apparatus collated from different iterations of the stories along with a detailed introduction and an essay on the text based on contemporary scholarship.

"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes not only features the great detective's earliest known cases, it also introduces his older and smarter brother Mycroft and brings us face to face with that Napoleon of Crime, the chilling Professor Moriarty. This is, in short, the volume through which Conan Doyle dramatically enlarges the Holmesian universe--and just one reason why any serious Sherlockian will want a copy of these stories in this handsome Edinburgh edition, superbly introduced and crisply annotated by Jonathan Cranfield." -Michael Dirda, author of the Edgar Award-winning On Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781474477529

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416 pages