The Return of Sherlock Holmes
de Arthur Conan Doyle
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New York: Book-of-the-Month Club, 1994. hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very good book in like dust jacket. Dust jacket has light wear; now in new removable protective cover. Beige boards with colored fibres, quarter bound in burgundy cloth with copper titles on the spine. Green decorative endpapers - Gordian knot design. Pages clean and unmarked, with vintage illustrations. Part of a uniform set. Book-of-the-Month club, 1994, 381 pages, dust jacket illustration by Monica Ellis. 8vo (5.5"" x 8.5"")
Sinopsis
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving 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 had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his 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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- Librería
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 06232305holmes05vb
- Título
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- Autor
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Muy bueno
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 2
- Editorial
- Book-of-the-Month Club
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 1994
- Páginas
- 381
- Tamaño
- 8vo
- Peso
- 0.00 libras
- Palabras clave
- Sherlock Holmes
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Mysteries;
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