The Hound of the Baskervilles: 150th Anniversary Edition - Brossura

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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ISBN 10: 0451528018 ISBN 13: 9780451528018

Casa editrice: Signet, 2001

Riassunto

Warned that death awaits him if he claims his inheritance of a cursed ancestral manor, Sir Henry Baskerville calls on Sherlock Holmes for assistance, in a special centennial edition of the mystery classic, which features a new afterword by Brenda Wineapple. Reprint.

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“The whole Sherlock Holmes saga is a triumphant illustration of art’s supremacy over life.”—Christopher Morley

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, where he received a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he was knighted for his defense of the British cause in The Great Boer War—became an ardent spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.

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• Editore: Signet
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0451528018
• ISBN 13: 9780451528018
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256