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A beautiful and thoroughly enjoyable edition...will appeal to first time readers and seasoned veterans. --Daniel Stashower
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The publication of Leslie S. Klinger's brilliant new annotations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four classic Holmes novels in 2005 created a Holmes sensation. Available again in an attractively-priced edition identical to the first, except this edition has no outer slipcase. Klinger reassembles Doyle's four seminal novels in their original order, with over 1,000 notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and tantalizing new Sherlockian theories. Inside, readers will find: A Study in Scarlet (1887) a tale of murder and revenge that tells of Holmes and Dr. Watson's first meeting; The Sign of Four (1889) a chilling tale of lost treasure...and of how Watson met his wife; The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901) hailed as the greatest mystery novel of all time; and The Valley of Fear (1914) a fresh murder scene that leads Holmes to solve a long-forgotten mystery.
Whether as a stand-alone volume or as a companion to the short stories, this classic work illuminates the timeless genius of Conan Doyle for an entirely new generation.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Ginormous edition (New Annotated - Hardcover),
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I'm not reviewing the literary merits, but the particular edition. I bought this after reading the reviews for The Complete Sherlock Holmes; some complained about the size of the print giving headaches, and I was worried a 1200 pages one-volume might be unwieldy...Not compared to this behemoth. It is roughly the same size and weight with your standard first year university calculus textbook. The above mentioned edition had a reviewer complaining about his 11 year-old nephew getting a head-ache from reading the small print. I guarantee you that same boy would struggle keeping this book open, lest he has the discipline to read at a desk. The annotations make the book swell, and if you're a big fan of Holmes, I can see how you might be interested in this edition. To all others though, be warned, this will be a very weird type-setting; at most half the page is allocated to the actual text, the rest is for the annotations; many times that means the pages are half-blank, other times it means you have to flip several pages to continue Sir Arthur Doyle's story because the intermediate pages are taken up with several annotations. The annotations often go beyond interesting, into the realm of completely trivial; obscure (to people that don't live and breathe Sherlock Holmes, at least) sources are quoted--a book dealer for example; instances of dubious logic or incongruences are not attributed to simple human error on the side of the author, but to additional info available to, or the motivation of, Holmes, to which the actual author never mentions or alludes to. In other words, the annotations are a lot of fan fiction, and I mean no disrespect when I say that, and actually find it almost as interesting as the story proper. There are numerous illustrations, and multiple illustrations of the same scenes; there is no discrimination here over quality or relevance, all are included. Again this feels like it was not professionally edited, but put together by a fanboy; sweet, but unbelievable almost, that a grown man would turn a hobby into a money making venture--and that he has, as seemingly, there's the newer The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels, now with 50% more (statistics I made up) stuff you did not know you wanted to know, and a price tag increase you may not like. In "A Study in Scarlet" Holmes explains his ignorance on certain subjects to Watson, by theorizing that one's memory is finite, and crowding items useless to one's main pursuit will likely drive out those which are essential to it; if your main reason for getting the book is the enjoyment of the story itself, the annotations might just hinder that pursuit in the same fashion. So in conclusion, get the 1200 or so pages edition I mentioned above, and with the money saved, buy yourself a magnifying glass (helps with the small print AND gets you in character;) and go online for all the extra info after you've experienced the story in an unadulterated way.
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Great Book, but Not for Newbies!,
By Edson - Published on Amazon.com
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This is a wounderful annotated version of Sherlock Holmes, its illustrations are magnificent and the notes are extermely helpful to the ambitious reader, but when by this book you must to remember that this is a annotated version of the canon, and it is a beautiful book because of this, so its pages are fully pictured not just to illustrate the referred text but also fot the sake of the reader and in order to let we take in account the marvellous work that fill the pages of the magazines and books that tell the history of the most famous detective ever. This book is not a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle, but a pleasant annotated history of Sherlock Holmes and should be faced in this way. Therefore I trust recommend that Sherlock's beginners start to read a version without the extensively annotated presented in here and then, when your curiosity was raised, buy this unforgettable collection of histories for the sake of yourself.
1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
as good as it gets,
By Fulgour Prentice - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: New Annotated Sherlock Holmes (Hardcover)
I simply wished to add a 5 Star rating here, for a great book. As near to looking over ACD's shoulder as it comes, and as good as it gets (along with Baring-Gould for a perfect measure). 5 * * * * * 5
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Annotations set-up a problem,
By Laura A. Swartz "Laura Swartz" - Published on Amazon.com
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I purchased this version of the Sherlock Holmes novels because I am interested in the cultural & historical contexts of literary works. While the annotations in this volume are certainly interesting and useful, the way that there are formatted is not. First, the annotations themselves will sometimes take up two or three pages at a time, breaking up the actual text so that I have to keep flipping back and forth; sometimes, a set of annotations is located on the flip side of the page to which they refer. I much prefer annotations as footnotes or, less so, as endnotes. Second, there is a tremendous amount of white space on most pages, so the page layout is not as economical as it could or should be; this contributes to the hulking size of the book, making it difficult to read in bed, as I often do. Third, the annotations text is in red, which can be difficult to read in lower light. Fourth, less illustrations could have been used; sometimes the same scene is illustrated two or three times.
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