The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Pdf is a Classic Crime Mystery Fiction book made up of short stories centering on the badass Detective – Sherlock Holmes written By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Summary
Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature’s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson — as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the legendary sleuth. Featured tales include several of the author’s personal favorites: “A Scandal in Bohemia” — in which a king is blackmailed by a former lover and Holmes matches wits with the only woman to attract his open admiration — plus “The Speckled Band,” “The Red-Headed League,” and “The Five Orange Pips.” Additional mysteries include “The Blue Carbuncle,” “The Engineer’s Thumb,” “The Beryl Coronet,” “The Copper Beeches,” and four others.
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About Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Author Of The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Pdf Book
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Author Of The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Pdf was born in Edinburgh in 1859 and died in 1930. Within those years was crowded a variety of activity and creative work that made him an international figure and inspired the French to give him the epithet ‘the good giant’. He was the nephew of ‘Dickie Doyle’ the artist, and was educated at Stonyhurst, and later studied medicine at Edinburgh University, where the methods of diagnosis of one of the professors provided the idea for the methods of deduction used by Sherlock Holmes.
He set up as a doctor at Southsea and it was while waiting for patients that he began to write. His growing success as an author enabled him to give up his practice and turn his attention to other subjects. He was a passionate advocate of many causes, ranging from divorce law reform and the Channel Tunnel to the issuing of inflatable life-jackets to sailors. He also campaigned to prove the innocence of individuals, and his work on the Edjalji case was instrumental in the introduction of the Court of Criminal Appeal. He was a volunteer physician in the Boer War and later in life became a convert to spiritualism.
His greatest achievement was, of course, his creation of Sherlock Holmes, who soon attained international status and constantly distracted him from his other work; at one time Conan Doyle killed him but was obliged by public protest to restore him to life. And in his creation of Dr Watson, Holmes’s companion in adventure and chronicler, Conan Doyle produced not only a perfect foil for Holmes but also one of the most famous narrators in fiction. Penguin publish all the books about the great detective, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Valley of Fear, His Last Bow, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes, The Uncollected Sherlock Holmes and The Penguin Complete Sherlock Holmes.
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- Publisher : Dover Publications; Green ed. edition (October 22, 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 240 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0486474917
- ISBN-13 : 978-0486474915
- Lexile measure : 1020L
- Item Weight : 6.6 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.26 x 0.59 x 8.22 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #71,792 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,157 in Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books)
- #2,638 in Classic Literature & Fiction
- Customer Reviews: 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,121 ratings
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Adventures of the mind of a deductive genius
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 26, 2013
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One aspect that has struck me whenever I have read any of the Sherlock Holmes stories is the lack of action in the sense of gunfire, chases, fights–the usual elements of action thrillers. Most of the overt physical action in the stories occurs off stage. Most of the action is mental and is a journey through the reasoning process of Holmes’ brilliant mind as he explains the steps he followed to reach conclusions that only seem obvious when Holmes explains that all the clues were hiding in plain sight.
Many of the stories involve lessons from Holmes to his friend, colleague and chronicler Dr. John Watson. He will explain, for example, how he can determine a man’s fall in fortune by the worn condition of his old business suit, the chaffing on his hatband or the depth his razor shaved his cheek as he looked at one side of his face in a mirror. These lessons in deduction have been parodied many times on film; indeed, the originals often seem to be consciously aware of their own absurdity.
One of the most celebrated Holmes stories is the first in the collection: “A Scandal in Bohemia.” This is one of the few examples where Holmes is unable to triumph as he is outmaneuvered by, of all people, a woman. On more than one occasion Holmes will refer to one case where he did not solve and wrap up all the loose ends of a mystery in his usual manner although he does not always specify that the person that outsmarted him was a woman. Holmes takes understandable pride in his mental prowess and this story, strategically placed as the first in the first collection of stories about him, reveals that this pride can be wounded. His repeated reference to it is proof that he has never forgotten this failure.
Often the stories include standard melodramatic elements–the unsuspecting governess in a vast household in which one forbidden wing of the estate contains scandalous secrets, obsessively jealous or possessive fathers exerting ironclad control over submissive daughters, The stories often pose Holmes’ outsider status against an inept police officer, usually the dense Scotland Yard detective Lestrade. This is a familiar pattern in detective fiction following down through non-comformist private detectives such as Philip Marlowe.
The stories are often self-referential as Holmes more than once refers to Watson’s distortion of the `facts’ of a case or observes that Watson has embellished some details to make the tales more readable rather than presenting Holmes’ deductive lectures in their pure or unvarnished state. Holmes is often the professor explaining his methods to his very astute student Watson, who inevitably always comes up short by missing sometimes just one trifling detail that makes all the difference in leading to the truth of the matter.
Often if one takes the mystery setup of the stories at face value they are fairly standard mystery fare. There are other more intricate, more masterfully constructed mysteries. The element that transcends the genre is Holmes himself. Doyle modeled Holmes on his medical doctor guru Joseph Bell and incorporated the teacher/pupil relationship of himself and Bell into the Holmes/Watson relationship. He even modeled Holmes’ physical appearance on the much less physically appealing Bell, despite the image that was projected by the original illustrator which formed the template for all future film and stage portrayals of Holmes.
Many heroes need a sidekick or witness and Watson fulfills both roles for Holmes. He is the Boswell to Holmes’ Johnson. He is also the surrogate ordinary man observing the observer, presenting his superior master in a way that renders him more understandable and relatable to mere mortals. The tales belong even more to him that they do to Holmes. We never get Holmes’ own account of any of these incidents; we only see him as Watson sees him. This dynamic between the genius and his witness is what has ensured that the Holmes stories are still being read over a century after they were written.
5.0 out of 5 stars A classic you can get sucked intoReviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 30, 2012
Frankly, classic novels terrify me a little bit. And it’s been a looooong time since I voluntarily picked one up to read (and as we’re all good friends here and in a safe circle, I must admit that I made it through about 5 pages of the last one…Wuthering Heights…before placing back on my bookshelf and walking away slowwwly so as not to anger it). So, I decided to read Sherlock with hesitant excitement – you see, I’m a sucker for British crime drama, which is furthered drastically when Robert Downey Jr. is involved in my mental picture of the main character.
But I digress…
Sherlock started out a bit slowly for me (as classics tend to do). It took me about an adventure and a half to get used to Doyle’s formal writing style. But once I got the hang of the lingo, it was smooth sailing from there. True, many of the 12 adventures were very similar to each other – almost a same story, different time sort of thing – but I still loved it. Sherlock is a charming nutcase, and I loved seeing Watson go along with all of his best buddy’s strangely genius ideas.
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