Sherlock Holmes Adventures is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on October 14, 1892; Individual stories have been published at The Strand Magazine between July 1891 and June 1892. Their stories are not in chronological order, and the only common character for all twelve is Holmes and Dr. Watson. The stories are related to the first person narrative from Watson's point of view.
In general the story in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identifies, and tries to correct, social injustice. Holmes is described as offering a new and fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and increased the number of The Strand Magazine subscriptions, prompting Doyle to demand more money for the next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, although only featured in a single story by Doyle, is a prominent character in the modern Sherlock Holmes adaptation, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle includes four of the twelve stories of this collection in his twelve of his favorite Sherlock Holmes stories, choosing "Spotted Band Adventure" as his overall favorite.
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Context
Arthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at the university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, "Sasassa Valley Mystery", published in September 1879. After eight years, A Study at Scarlet The first Sherlock Holmes story of Doyle, published by Ward Lock & amp; Co The novel was well received, but Doyle paid little for it, and although there was a sequel novel, The Sign of the Four, published in Lipincott Monthly Magazine, he shifted his focus to the short story.. In early 1891, The Strand's first editor, Herbert Greenhough Smith, received two submissions from Doyle for a newly established magazine. He then describes his reaction; "I immediately realized that here is the greatest short story writer since Edgar Allan Poe." The first, "A Scandal in Bohemia" was published near the back of The Strand Magazine in July 1891. The stories proved popular, helped to improve magazine circulation, and Doyle received 30 guineas for each short story at the beginning of twelve. The first twelve stories were published monthly from July 1891 to June 1892, and later collected together and published as a book, The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes on October 14, 1892 by George Newnes, publisher of The Strand Magazine . The earliest print of this book is 10,000 copies in Great Britain, and over 4,500 copies in the United States, published by Harper Brothers the following day.
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Summary
All the stories in The Sherlock Holmes Adventure are told in the first person's narration from Dr.'s point of view. Watson, like all but four Sherlock Holmes stories. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entries for Doyle suggest that the short stories contained in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes tend to exhibit social injustices, such as "the betrayal of a king of opera singers , the stepfather's deception of his environment as a fictitious lover, the aristocratic exploits of a failed pawnshop, the wasteland of a beggar in Kent. "This suggests that, on the contrary, Holmes is portrayed as offering a fresh and just approach in an unjust world of" official and aristocratic privileges ". The Sherlock Holmes Adventure contains many of Doyle's favorite Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1927, he submitted a list of what he believed to be his twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories for The Strand Magazine. Among those listed are "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (as his favorite), "The Red-Headed League" (second), "A Scandal in Bohemia" (fifth) and "The Five Orange Pips" (seventh). The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 for alleged "occultism", but the book gained popularity on the black market of the banned books, and the restrictions were lifted in 1940.
Order of publication
Critical reception
The Sherlock Holmes adventure was well received after their serialization at The Strand Magazine . Following the publication of "A Scandal in Bohemia" in July 1891, Hull Daily Mail described the story as "eligible for the inventive genius" of Doyle. More than a year later, when Doyle quit the publication of a short story after the completion of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure , a piece in Belfast News Letter reviewed a story by another writer at The Strand Magazine that says that "may have been read quite interestingly a year ago", but the "unique strength" of Doyle's writings proves in the abyss in the quality between the stories. The Leeds Mercury strongly praised the characterization of Holmes, "with all its minor weaknesses", while contrasting Cheltenham Looker-On described Holmes as "somewhat boring sometimes", noting that the description of his weakness "grew tiring". Correspondent for Hampshire Telegraph deplores the fact that Doyle's wiser writings, such as Micah Clarke, are not as popular as the Holmes story, concluding that an author "who wants to make the letters have to write what that the reader wants ".
Adaptations
Sherlock Holmes has been adapted several times for movies and dramas, and this character has been played by over 70 different actors in over 200 films. A number of films and television series have spawned the title of "Sherlock Holmes Adventure", but some are original stories, a combination of a number of Doyle stories, or in one case, an adaptation of the Fourth Sign. Irene Adler, who in the first short story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", stands out in many modern adaptations, though it only appears in one story. Often in modern adaptation, he is portrayed as the love interest for Holmes, as in Robert Doherty Elementary and BBC Sherlock , though in the story itself, the narrative claim: "Not because he feels the same emotion as love for Irene Adler. " Many of the stories from the collection were included as an episode in the Granada Television series, Sherlock Holmes that lasted from 1984 to 1994. The Sherlock Holmes adventure was dramatized for BBC Radio 4 in 1990-1991, starring Clive Merrison as Holmes and Michael Williams as Watson. Bert Coules is the lead author, but the story is also written by Vincent McInerny and Peter Mackie, and directed by Patrick Rayner and Enyd Williams.
References
Bibliography
- Doyle, Arthur Conan (2005). Klinger, Leslie, ed. the newly annotated Sherlock Holmes. Volume I . New York: W.W. Norton. ISBNÃ, 0-393-05916-2. OCLCÃ, 57490922. Ã,
External links
- Full text of Sherlock Holmes Adventure on Wikisource
- Media related to The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on Wikimedia Commons
- Sherlock Holmes Adventure in Project Gutenberg
- Sherlock Holmes Adventure public domain audiobook on LibriVox
- The Sherlock Holmes Adventure at Outlaws Old Time Radio Corner
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