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Chargement... Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes (1892)par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Favourite Books (12) » 50 plus Out of Copyright (5) Sonlight Books (66) Top Five Books of 2017 (104) Books Read in 2018 (467) British Mystery (35) Books Read in 2020 (629) Books Read in 2013 (219) Readable Classics (73) Greatest Books (41) Books About Murder (67) Victorian Period (2) Books tagged favorites (165) BBC Big Read (85) 1890s (10) Books Read in 2022 (3,509) Books Read in 2008 (165) Books on my Kindle (19) My TBR (9) Tagged 19th Century (29) Unread books (896) Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 1891-1892 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes; 1892-1893 The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet (1887) ; The Sign of Fourth (1890); The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891-1892) I'm borrowing a friend's heap of Sherlock Holmes collections--she read them in three weeks, and my challenge is to read them in less. Unfortunately I seem to dislike to mildly like the short stories so far. A few stand out to me, like the ones that travel to the countryside or feature a tomboyish woman (traditionally I gravitate to stories featuring independent heroines). Still, those stories I only mildly like. The rest are okay. Considering the vast popularity of the Sherlock Holmes series and its lead character, perhaps I should address how it's possible for someone to quickly lose excitement when reading: 1) Almost all dialogue. Maybe I'm a big fan of the "show, don't tell" strategy to writing or I'm a big of a misanthrope who wants to tell the characters to get over themselves, but I find having almost every sentence within quotation marks exhausting. Roughly half of the stories are three characters (Holmes, Watson, and a client) standing or sitting in a room, the client rattling the backstory. Frequently there are quotes within quotes, like relaying gossip. Sometimes the plot revolves around an almost petty issue so the dialogue sounds like gossip or someone who lacks the spine to resolve their own issues. I never cared for soap opera. 2) Too convenient. The other half of the stories have Holmes explaining step by step the solution to the problem with a deus ex machina quality, like the stars aligned just so that Holmes has everything he needs to promptly reach the right conclusion. Forgo any outliers or natural element of randomness. No one reads this for immersion. Granted, these are short stories, so I can't hold this part against the plot too much. 3) Stiff characters and language. While it is amusing to read with a general, BBC accent and many people love the English elite culture of the Victorian era, I found it all too stuffy. Impersonal. Everyone other than Holmes is colorless and shown next to him as complete imbeciles. Rarely is there someone who is more than an audience in a room. Outside of the round-about aristocratic dialogue, Doyle's writing is of no particular artistry or literary value. I had to look up what the literary value of the stories were because I couldn't deduce them myself. Apparently Sherlock was popular because Doyle was the first to successfully write a mystery using forensics (others, including Edgar Allen Poe, did it first but didn't rise to main stream success). It's one of those things where if you're impressed with the main novelty of the story (Sherlock's power of deduction in an era where that was "the" new thing) you'll love the story--most people seem to. However, what's novel to some is often gimmicky to me. I need more depth, even in short stories. One day I came across The Sign of Four and said, "what the heck let's read it". I loved it. Now I am slowly reading all the books and short stories. From a historical perspective I loved reading about late 19th century London i.e. the customs, the conveyances, how women were regarded. My favorite from this volume is the Adventure of the Speckled Band. It was scary and mysterious. How could Sherlock solve it? Pros : I felt like I was there Cons: Sherlock always disappears to gather evidence, sometimes I wish we could go along on the trail. Doze contos admiráveis, dos quais meu favorito é ¨As faias cor de cobre¨ Appartient à la sérieAppartient à la série éditoriale — 21 plus El País. Serie negra (42) Kaiser Krimi (007) Little Blue Books (1029) Little Blue Books (1029) Penguin Clothbound Classics (2018) Tus Libros. Anaya (101) Est contenu dansSherlock Holmes Omnibus (4) par আর্থার কোনান ডয়েল (indirect) The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes / The Hound of the Baskervilles / The Return of Sherlock Holmes par Arthur Conan Doyle Les Aventures de Sherlock Holmes : Tome 1 par Arthur Conan Doyle (indirect) A Study in Scarlet / The Sign of Four / The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes par Arthur Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes and The Complete Tales Of Terror and Mystery par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle British Mystery Megapack Volume 5 - The Sherlock Holmes Collection: 4 Novels and 43 Short Stories + Extras par Arthur Conan Doyle Oeuvres complètes I. Etude en rouge, Le signe des quatre, Les aventures de Sherlock Holmes par Arthur Conan Doyle Classic Illustrated Sherlock Holmes: Thirty Seven Short Stories Plus a Complete Novel par Arthur Conan Doyle Club del misterio. Volumen I: Prólogo de J. J. BORGES. "El cuento policial, IX" . Dashiell HAMMETT: "Cosecha roja". Arthur CONAN DOYLE: "Las aventuras de Shrlock Holmes". Hellery QUEEN: "Cara a cara". Raymond CHANDLER: "El sueño eterno". Patricia IHGSMITH: Erle STANLEY GARDNER: "El cuchillo". "El caso del juguete mortífero". James HADLEY CHASE: "Impulso creador". "El secuestro de Miss Blandish". Nicholas BLAKE: "La bestia debe morir". Volumen 2: Prólogo de R. CHANDLER: " El simpl par AA.VV. (indirect) ContientFait l'objet d'une adaptation dansEst en version abrégée dansFait l'objet d'une version longue dansEst parodié dansA inspiréPossède un guide de référence avecContient un guide de lecture pour étudiant
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930) etait un ecrivain ecossais, celebre pour ses romans mettant en scene le detective Sherlock Holmes, consideres comme une innovation majeure du roman policier. Cet ecrivain prolifique a egalement travaille dans le domaine de la science-fiction, des romans historiques, des pieces de theatre et de la poesie. Arthur Conan Doyle est ne a Edimbourg (Ecosse). Il etudie la medecine de 1876 a 1881 apres etre sorti agnostique des ecoles catholiques de son enfance. Ses premiers ecrits, encore exempts de son celebre personnage Sherlock Holmes, sont publies en 1879, peu apres qu il a arrete d exercer son activite de medecin, et c est en 1887 qu apparaissent sur la scene litteraire britannique le mondialement connu detective londonien et son ami et assistant le docteur Watson. L engagement politique de Conan Doyle, notamment en faveur de la guerre en Afrique du Sud, ainsi que son titanesque travail litteraire (plus de cinquante livres et un nombre impressionnant de nouvelles), lui valent d etre proclame chevalier en 1902: il devient alors Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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