The Complete Sherlock Holmes
by Arthur Conan Doyle · first published 2018
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Classic mysteries following detective Sherlock Holmes, featuring sharp, witty deduction and the whole canon collected in one volume. Suited to young people and adults alike.
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Housed in one superb volume, 'The Complete Sherlock Holmes' includes every Sherlock Holmes tale penned by the great Arthur Conan Doyle. With a linked table of contents, you can click on each and every chapter, making for easy navigation through this mammoth omnibus.Sherlock Holmes, the greatest fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the creation of Scottish born author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A brilliant London-based detective, Holmes is famous for his intellectual prowess, and is renowned for his skillful use of deductive reasoning and astute obse
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on “Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?” ↗…deal with. For things where images aren't needed, and where I'm not going to have to do a lot of looking back, I've greatly enjoyed reading on Kindle. Harry Potter was fine, for instance, as was the complete Sherlock Holmes stories.
on “How ebooks lost their shine” ↗…http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/731 Japanese literature including Genji Monogatari: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/19264 Complete Sherlock Holmes: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1661 On War: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1946 All of Shakespeare: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a65 Thus Spake Zarathustra: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1998…
on “Four Open Letters To The Book Industry” ↗Fiction: 1. Life of Pi - Yann Martel 2. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas : An awesome closeup of revenge 3. The complete Sherlock Holmes series : 'nuff said. Non fiction: 1. Cosmos - Carl Sagan : I fell in love with science post-reading this book. 2. October Sky - Homer Hickham : A real life story of how a group of boys in a backwater…
on “What are great books for boys?” ↗…lost lead pencils and giving advice to young ladies from boarding-schools. -- From "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Every kid should be given a copy of the complete Sherlock Holmes canon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_of_Sherlock_Holmes) This will turn them towards learning and practicing "The Art of Deduction (or Ratiocination according to Edgar Allan Poe)" like nothing else…
on “The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (2010)” ↗…could carry my Kindle and have, as was stated, a full library. Furthermore, I can browse the Internet. Check my email. Download books on-the-go. Download samples of books. If I download a sample of The Complete Sherlock Holmes, that includes two books' worth of samples, for free, in 30 seconds, wherever I am, with easily-unlocked DRM. The free books alone are worth it. I'm going to be elitist here and say that if you don't…
on “Why I won’t touch the Kindle 2 with a ten foot pole.” ↗…the sort of person who likes Shakespeare. And it's much easier to have The Complete Shakespeare on a Kindle than it is to have it in a backpack. I also have The Complete Asimov, and I'm considering The Complete Sherlock Holmes. The Kindle got me into reading P. G. Wodehouse for the first time, because his stuff was free on Gutenberg. I managed to find a complete archive of Diana Wynne Jones stories: they're for teens rather…
on “A Kindle trick changes the reading experience” ↗Remember that book costs slide downward over time. I got me the complete Sherlock Holmes for a dollar, and a bit of Austen and Dickens for free. I think Neuromancer was about seven dollars, too. So it's not a flat price eating away at you.
on “The Kindle problem” ↗Reading the complete Sherlock Holmes stories a few months ago, I also noticed how casually the frequent use of cocaine by Holmes is mentioned as a small vice, a recreational drug that is also "chemically clean", so nothing to worry about.…
on “On 17th century "cocaine"” ↗I'm disappointed to learn of this editing in Standard Ebooks, having had the misfortune to buy a Barnes & Noble copy of the complete Sherlock Holmes that had a similar approach taken. Book looks lovely, but has an altered chapter order, Americanised spellings and lots of typos. There is a certain amount of editing needed to render the likes of Shakespeare…
on “Standard Ebooks: liberated ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover” ↗