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Sherlockians and more casual Holmes fans alike will delight in this comprehensive edition of the 56 original short adventures featuring the world's first private consulting detective. Modeling his efforts on William S. Baring-Gould's 1968 Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Klinger (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library) packs as many extras into these two volumes as a special director's cut DVD: detailed essays on subjects as diverse as the Boer War and the history of rugby, illuminating citations to early drafts of Doyle's original manuscripts,and full discussions of the numerous theories developed over more than a century concerning ambiguities, contradictions and unresolved issues in the stories. Those new to such scholarship will be fascinated by the sophisticated multidisciplined approach, much of it based on close readings and historical research similar to Bible study. The synthesis of the commentaries will engage veteran Sherlockians, who will be able to compare hypotheses concerning, for example, the true identity of the king of Bohemia or Holmes's actual whereabouts during the Great Hiatus. First-time readers might want to skip Klinger's brief intros to each tale, as they presume familiarity with the plot and often hint strongly at the solutions. Many will prefer this to the Oxford University Press uniform edition of a decade ago.
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"These beautifully produced volumes, as big as gold-tooled church bibles, packed with cross-references and indexes, suggest Homes and Watson are not only immortal but the subject of a fanatical and crazy religion." Roger Lewis, The Sunday Express, 30 Jan 2005
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IT WAS IN the spring of the year 1894 that all London was interested, and the fashionable world dismayed, by the murder of the Honourable Ronald Adair under most unusual and inexplicable circumstances. Read the first page
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The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes The Completed Short Stories,
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I have been a Sherlock Holmes fan for many years and have found these books to be the best Sherlock Holmes book I have ever read it was well worth the money.
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why not put them all in...,
By Pierre-Yves Boivin (Montréal, Québec) - See all my reviews
Ce commentaire est de: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories (2 Vol. Set) (Hardcover)
I had never read a Sherlock Holmes story and given that English is not my mother tongue, I had not really contemplated the idea of reading any of them in English either. Then I saw this "complete" annodated and illustrated version in a bookstore and I thought: why not. I loved the look and feel and I thought it would be great to have footnotes that would put the stories in context for me. They were written more than 100 years ago after all! And I was right! For a new comer like me, it's great to have the context and also it's quite amusing to see that people have actually dissected the entire stories and context and have written thesis about it! So the concept is awsome, the drawings of the Strand magazine too, not to mention the plots of the adventures of our private detective...BUT... I was really frustrated to see that the editors had purposedly left the four canon novels out of the package in order to issue an eventual third volume with those 4 novels. This decision seems to have been made for pure commercial reasons given that nothing would have prevented a third volume could to be included. As if when you pay 110$ for a series of books, you wouldn't be willing to put an extra 30 - 40 to have it all in one box. Oh well, at least the books themselves a beautiful and are up to the stature of the legendary Baker Street Sleuth!
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Amazing collection,
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Any fan would love this collection, well worth it buy even with the higher cost price the rest of the similar titles
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