The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1891-2 and published in volume form in 1892, made Sherlock Holmes and his creator Arthur Conan Doyle famous. This, the first critical edition for twenty-five years, provides an authoritative text, a full textual apparatus, and a scholarly introduction and notes. It also reproduces a selection of the 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget which appeared in the first British edition.
Andrew Glazzard is a senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. He is the author of Conrad’s Popular Fictions (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) and of numerous journal articles on late-Victorian and Edwardian fiction. He is an occasional contributor to the New Statesman.
General Editor’s PrefaceAcknowledgementsA Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan DoyleIntroductionThe Adventures of Sherlock HolmesAn Essay on the TextAppendix: Preface to the Author’s Edition of Sherlock Holmes StoriesApparatusExplanatory Notes
Conan Doyle did not just create Sherlock Holmes. He reinvented and popularised the mini-series with self-contained episodes — think not just Inspector Morse or Dr Who but Friends and The Simpsons. Andrew Glazzard's expertly curated new edition of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle's first foray into this endlessly generative form, is a timely invitation for us to binge-read these brilliant stories once again.
Arthur Conan Doyle, Roger Luckhurst, University of London) Luckhurst, Roger (Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies, Birkbeck College
Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Cranfield, Liverpool John Moores University) Cranfield, Jonathan (Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History
Arthur Conan Doyle, Jonathan Cranfield, Liverpool John Moores University) Cranfield, Jonathan (Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History
Arthur Conan Doyle, Roger Luckhurst, University of London) Luckhurst, Roger (Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies, Birkbeck College