Sherlock Holmes first appeared in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet published in 1887. Holmes was so loved by all that when his author killed him off in one of his stories, readers wrote in anger to complain. They refused to allow Holmes to die! Holmes was brought back to “life” and ...
AB:I’ve been fortunate enough to have read the Sherlock Holmes when I was very young. I had kind of a sickly childhood, and I had an uncle who brought me old English boys annuals like Chums and Boys Own Annual. And they were full of serials about the wilds of Canada, the Northwest...
truly chilling tale of the macabre and has demonstrated both superb plotting and his masterful ability to create mood. Yes, the supernatural elements are a bit jarring to the reader used to the calm rationale of the Holmes stories, but I still feel that on reflection, it would have made a...
We hear first of his bereavement in “The Adventure of the Empty House”; then, in “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier,” dated nine years later, Holmes alludes querulously to his friend’s desertion of him for a wife. The obvious conclusion is that he remarried; but this is not ...
Sherlock Holmes was a success from the moment of his first appearance in 1887, and has never wavered in public esteem. Even though he had many predecessors, and has had many rivals then and since, he rapidly became the official prototype of the detective, and in particular of the English ...
简介:"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in Strand Magazine under the title "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in December 1893. It appears in book form as part of the collection The Memoi...
Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin and Emile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq. The former had first appeared inThe Murders in the Rue Morgue,first published in 1841, and the latter inL'Affaire Lerouge(The Lerouge Affair) in 1866. The brief discussion between Watson and Holmes about the two chara...
简介:The Valley of Fear is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland. The story was first published in the Strand Magazine between September 1914 and May 1915. The first book edition ...
从第一段前两句话可知:Holmes (福尔摩斯)被公认为是虚构文学中最伟大的侦探家,事实上他比他的创作者Arthur Conan Doyle 先生还出名,由此可知Holmes是Arthur Conan Doyle 笔下虚构的一个人物形象。故选D。 (2) 细节理解题。tall and learn 和always in his cape都是形容Holmes的,由第一段倒数第二句话可知:...
The detective Sherlock Holmes is one of the best-known characters in English fiction. He is the main character in a c【小题1】 of novels and short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887. Over the following 40 years...