The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes

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January had 6, February 7, March 5, April 4, May, June, and July all had 3. August had 4, September 6, October 5, November 4, and December 10.

When Conan Doyle started writing about the private detective, Holmes was a self-proclaimed anomaly, something that didn’t really exist in our world or at any point in history. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote in a classy classic manner and even if his settings were not familiar to me as a Filipino, I appreciated his stories because of the universal messages in them: love of a husband to a wife, a son to a father, a father to his child, etc; the evil in greed especially when it comes to riches and money; that men can be truly friends without homosexuality getting in-between; that we have to respect the people we work with; always be wary of the people around you; and that, if used in moderation, cocaine and morphine can actually make you sharper. I cringed while typing the last one.

Sidney Paget, the Artist Who Illustrated the Sherlock Holmes Stories

I was recently asked by my GR friend Colin, “what novel had the most impact on you in your teens/early twenties?” How can a person write such fascinating accounts so consistently, even I jettison the few uninteresting of them? Although Doyle had written other adventure series, Professor Challenger and Brigadier Gerard, he considered his true calling to be an author of Medieval Romances, with knights and so forth. I read some of them and they are quite wordy and pretty bad. The short story was Doyle’s true métier. And I say, without hesitation, if not for Holmes, Doyle would now be forgotten. Finally, something that surprised me was how brief the appearance of Professor Moriarty was, as I was expecting it to be much stronger since he's deemed to be Holmes's nemesis. Conan Doyle's house, Undershaw, located in Hindhead, south of London, where he had lived for a decade, had been a hotel and restaurant between 1924 and 2004. It now stands empty while conservationists and Conan Doyle fans fight to preserve it.

Oh no - did I just give away a spoiler?! - forgive me my dear GR friends! You know me, I don't typically do this...but...it was part of the point I was making about the author - so I apologize for this!) I had a great feeling of loss when my reading adventure came to a definitive end. Also a feeling of relief, where I felt my bounds of duty were cut, and I was able to pursue other literary paths. Good gracious, Holmes!” I cried. “You don't mean to say that you've been walking about London with that thing?”I have solved the case, Watson." He sat up, brushing a fried egg from the lapel of his dressing gown. "Allow me to elucidate." Brake, Laurel, eds. Marysa Demoo. Dictionary of Nineteenth-century Journalism in Great Britain and Ireland. Gent and London: Academia Press, 2009. There is no doubt that my hands down favourite of the entire collection was The Hound of the Baskervilles, but make no mistake I loved it all. I proceeded to read all of the unadapted stories and did not remember a one of them and found some of them quite terrible. I can say, unreservedly, nothing was lost in not adapting them.

You appear to be astonished,” he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. “Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it.” The author, John Le Carre wrote in November 14, 2006, as he reviewed the 150th printing of this edition, “Dr. Watson doesn’t write to you, he talks to you, with Edwardian courtesy, across a glowing fire. His voice has no barriers or affections. It is clear, energetic and decent, the voice of a tweedy, no-nonsense colonial Britisher at ease with himself.”

Illustrations of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories by Sidney Paget

I really liked the experience and I am proud of this accomplishment. My first time to read a canon. Before reading this, I thought that the word canon only applied to biblical works. Well, that was the first thing I learned upon adding this book in my currently-reading folder. I’ve been thinking of Doyle’s spiritualism lately and what Holmes would have made of it all. I can’t help feeling that there might have been words between the two of them and tuts and the slow shaking of the head. That is, I sometimes wonder if Holmes, the character, was more necessary, in a sense, than Doyle the writer. I know that sounds like a silly thing to say, but I think it might be at least a little true too.

I am new to audiobooks. There is a certain point in the evenings where my eyes tire and I have no interest in watching TV, so these audiobooks keep me company in the watches of the night. I also take them to bed where they help me drop off to sleep. I know the stories so well that I don't have to worry that I will miss anything important. Looking more closely, except for the novellas, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, the unadapted, weaker episodes could be found in the last three volumes of the Holmes’ books. Holmes was a towering genius in so many ways. Dr. Watson gives the stability, where Holmes in his creativity is sometimes off kilter, but we love him, and we are always mesmerized by how he can solve cases. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it. His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination. His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments. [ A Study in Scarlet 8]Hapless Ferrier agrees to the terms, is taken in and given a homestead, which he fruitfully multiples over twelve years until he’s outstripped his Mormon neighbors in wealth. However, he refuses to marry, without giving any explanation, and lives in peace until the Mormons declare he must turn over his “daughter” to become one of the wives of their sons. “Such marriage he regarded as no marriage at all, but as a shame and a disgrace” (62). Doyle includes one sarcastic footnote that the use of an “endearing epithet”--“heifer” to refer to their wives came from a Mormon preacher’s sermon (64). Even worse is the fear Mormons had of an “omniscient and omnipotent” group, the Danite Band, who meted out punishments for deviations from any rules: “a rash word or a hasty act was followed by annihilation, and yet none knew what the nature might be of this terrible power which was suspended over them…men went about in fear and trembling…every man feared his neighbour” (63). Doyle throws in comparison with the Inquisition of Seville, the German Vehmgericht and Italy’s secret societies; none was as effective as the Danites. The two candidates selected for unfortunate Lucy are Drebber and Stangerson, both of whom have several wives, neither of whom is an appealing candidate (66). Nota bene: Долуописаната сцена не е част от никоя от историите на сър Артър Конан Дойл. Всяка прилика с фикционални лица и събития обаче е напълно преднамерена. His last bow : The adventure of Wisteria Lodge : The singular experience of Mr. John Scott Eccles ; The tiger of San Pedro ; The adventure of the cardboard box ; The adventure of the red circle ; The adventure of the Bruce-Partington plans ; The adventure of the dying detective ; The disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax ; The adventure of the devil's foot ; His last bow -- I’ve read the Holmes stories many times over the years and watched all the Jeremy Brett adaptations several times, as well. Unfortunately because of Brett’s ill health, he was less and less present in the last adaptations and his death prevented him from finishing the Holmes canon The stories are written like bookends. As the stories start with a display of Holmes’ deductive reasoning, they end with it as well. Holmes explains how he solved the case, bit by bit, using this very method, and in almost every story, I found myself satisfied with the result.