Publication sequence Stories by publication sequence The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 because of its alleged "occultism", but the book gained popularity in a black market of similarly banned books, and the restriction was lifted in 1940. Among those he listed were " The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (as his favourite), " The Red-Headed League" (second), "A Scandal in Bohemia" (fifth) and " The Five Orange Pips" (seventh). In 1927, he submitted a list of what he believed were his twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories to The Strand Magazine. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains many of Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Doyle suggests that the short stories contained in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes tend to point out social injustices, such as "a king's betrayal of an opera singer, a stepfather's deception of his ward as a fictitious lover, an aristocratic crook's exploitation of a failing pawnbroker, a beggar's extensive estate in Kent." It suggests that, in contrast, Holmes is portrayed as offering a fresh and fair approach in an unjust world of "official incompetence and aristocratic privilege". Watson, as is the case for all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The preceding Holmes novels had been illustrated by other artists.Īll of the stories within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told in a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr.
Sidney Paget illustrated all twelve stories in The Strand and in the collection. The initial print run of the book was for 10,000 copies in the United Kingdom, and a further 4,500 copies in the United States, which were published by Harper Brothers the following day.
These first twelve stories were published monthly from July 1891 until June 1892, and then were collected together and published as a book, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on 14 October 1892 by George Newnes, the publisher of The Strand Magazine. The stories proved popular, helping to boost the circulation of the magazine, and Doyle was paid 30 guineas each for the initial run of twelve. Later he described his reaction: "I at once realised that here was the greatest short story writer since Edgar Allan Poe." The first of them, " A Scandal in Bohemia", was published near the back of the July issue with ten illustrations by Sidney Paget. Soon after The Strand Magazine was inaugurated in January 1891, its editor Herbert Greenhough Smith received two submissions to the new monthly from Doyle. It was well received, but Doyle was paid little for it after a sequel novel, The Sign of the Four, was published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, he shifted his focus to short stories. Eight years later his first Sherlock Holmes story, the novel A Study in Scarlet, was published by Ward Lock & Co. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking " The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite.Īrthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, "The Mystery of Sasassa Valley", published in September 1879. The first story, " A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories.
Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Watson and all are related in first-person narrative from Watson's point of view. The only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. The stories are collected in the same sequence, which is not supported by any fictional chronology. It contains the earliest short stories featuring the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes, which had been published in twelve monthly issues of The Strand Magazine from July 1891 to June 1892. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, first published on 14 October 1892. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at Wikisource
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