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Literary Criticism.
Nonfiction.
From time to time, people have asked me to comment on Sherlock Holmes, in ways other than what the novels provide. This collection of eight documents have all been published before, occasionally in slightly different versions. Some of them are straight nonfiction; others participate wholeheartedly in "The Game," that wildly imaginative edifice of Sherlockian schlorship built upon the solemn declaration that Holmes and Watson were absolutely real, that Conan Doyle was but their literary agent, and that the stories are absolutely factualâ??if only we lesser mortals can figure out the apparent flaws and omissions.This collection includes the following essays:Dr. Watson's War Wound, which was delivered as a guest lecture to the annual Baker Street Irregulars, where I solemnly played the gameâ??complete with footnotes!The Sabine Baring-Gould and Sherlock Holmes essay was published in the UK journal of the Sabine Baring_Gould Appreciation Society (which turned out to be a bit rude to Sabine's grandson who plagarized his grandfather's memoirs).A Holmes Chronology is an explanation of why "my" Sherlock Holmes isn't an aged geezer whenb Mary Russell walks over him on the Sussex Downs in 1915.Sherlock Holmes on Beekeeping, from the long lost volume by Holmes on his research into bees.Art in the Blood was commmissioned by Penquin for their website as an introduction to Arthur Conal Doyle.. . . and three more. Textrual, Higher, Radical, and Midrashic Sherlockian Criticism: and introduction to The Grand Game, Introduction to The Hound of the Baskervilles, and LRK o… (mais)
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua lÃngua.
I was thirty five when I met Sherlock Holmes, thirty-five years old with my nose in other peoples' books as I walked the family farm, and nearly stepped on him.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua lÃngua.
The rule of the game is that it must be played as solemnly as a county cricket match at Lord's...--Dorothy L. Sayers
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua lÃngua.
For more than a century now, readers have been grateful that an underemployed medical doctor in Victorian England persisted in his craziness, and brought Sherlock Holmes to life.
Literary Criticism.
Nonfiction.
From time to time, people have asked me to comment on Sherlock Holmes, in ways other than what the novels provide. This collection of eight documents have all been published before, occasionally in slightly different versions. Some of them are straight nonfiction; others participate wholeheartedly in "The Game," that wildly imaginative edifice of Sherlockian schlorship built upon the solemn declaration that Holmes and Watson were absolutely real, that Conan Doyle was but their literary agent, and that the stories are absolutely factualâ??if only we lesser mortals can figure out the apparent flaws and omissions.This collection includes the following essays:Dr. Watson's War Wound, which was delivered as a guest lecture to the annual Baker Street Irregulars, where I solemnly played the gameâ??complete with footnotes!The Sabine Baring-Gould and Sherlock Holmes essay was published in the UK journal of the Sabine Baring_Gould Appreciation Society (which turned out to be a bit rude to Sabine's grandson who plagarized his grandfather's memoirs).A Holmes Chronology is an explanation of why "my" Sherlock Holmes isn't an aged geezer whenb Mary Russell walks over him on the Sussex Downs in 1915.Sherlock Holmes on Beekeeping, from the long lost volume by Holmes on his research into bees.Art in the Blood was commmissioned by Penquin for their website as an introduction to Arthur Conal Doyle.. . . and three more. Textrual, Higher, Radical, and Midrashic Sherlockian Criticism: and introduction to The Grand Game, Introduction to The Hound of the Baskervilles, and LRK o
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