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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

(Oxford World's Classics)

By Arthur Conan Doyle

(193)

| Paperback | 9780192835086

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Complete in nine handsome volumes, each with an introduction by a Doyle scholar, a chronology, a selected bibliography, and explanatory notes, the Oxford Sherlock Holmes series offers a definitive collection of the famous detective's adventures. No home library is complete without it.

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Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Unlike Rankin, who only put his pet detective out to grass, Conan Doyle deliberately killed his off to give himself a break. People who've never read any Sherlock Holmes know about that famous struggle above the Reichenbach Falls which ends with Holm ... (read full critics)

guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

8 Reviews

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London - end of 1800

Sherlock is always Sherlock!

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Mati said on Jan 17, 2012 | 1 feedback

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My favourite of the Holmes collections.

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Poppy Petalled Metaphysics said on Oct 7, 2007 | Add your feedback

Adoro i libri che mettono in moto il cervello e Sherlock Holmes è un personaggio che trovo estremamente 'vivo'.
Quando leggendo un libro sul treno non si riescono a trattenere sorrisetti e 'oh' è sempre un buon segno...

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Artemisiaglacialis said on Jun 2, 2012 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

adventures of sherlock holmes

brilliant book

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Pauline Danton said on Nov 23, 2011 about the eBook edition | Add your feedback

This was a great read at bedtime. I fully intend on reading the remaining works.

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Rice Cooker said on Nov 14, 2011 about the Others edition | Add your feedback

I got the entire volume of Sherlock Holmes which includes 4 novels and 56 short stories compiled in two volumes. The short stories are further divided into 4 books.
Though most of the stories are written in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century they have been an absolute del ... (continue)

I got the entire volume of Sherlock Holmes which includes 4 novels and 56 short stories compiled in two volumes. The short stories are further divided into 4 books.
Though most of the stories are written in the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century they have been an absolute delight to read. The English setting, the language, the descriptions and the way Holmes ties it all back to decipher the case is delicious.

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Swetha Balla said on Apr 12, 2011 | Add your feedback