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The Sign of the Four
The Sign of the Four

The Sign of the Four

Author: 
Arthur Conan Doyle; Caroline Reitz; Darryl Jones
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  • A classic mystery involving a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog, and a love affair
  • A new edition of the second novel to feature Sherlock Holmes, in which almost all the elements now associated with the detective - a foggy and labyrinthine London, the emphasis on science, the drug use - are already present
  • A pacy plot embedded in nineteenth-century cultural debates about imperialism, urbanization, scientific advance, and changing gender roles

New to this Edition:

  • New critical notes elucidate the contemporary scientific and criminological contexts
  • The updated bibliography encompasses the substantial expansion of Doyle studies in recent years
  • A new introduction explores the novel's historical and literary context and contemporary developments in literary form

   
'I crave for mental exaltation. That is why I have chosen my own particular profession, or rather created it, for I am the only one in the world.'
  
Mary Morstan receives a large pearl through the post once a year without any clue as to the sender. When her intriguing correspondent requests a meeting, Holmes and Watson take on the case. Together the trio race through London to uncover the secrets of the Sholto family, who hold the key to uncovering the whereabouts of Mary's father and the existence of a treasure stemming from a crime committed years ago in India.
  
The Sign of the Four
 has been a crucial part of the Sherlock Holmes canon since its first publication in 1890. It explores theft, betrayal, and murder in the larger context of the British Empire at a time of national upheaval, and the novel's flashbacks to India during the 'Mutiny' and its aftermath call into question the consequences of that imperial venture. Caroline Reitz's new introduction and notes draws attention to some often-overlooked context of the story, such as its original publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, its representation of imperial violence, and changing gender roles.

Index: 

Introduction
Note on the Text
Select Bibliography
Chronology

  
The Sign of the Four
  
Explanatory Notes

About the author: 

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Prof Caroline Reitz, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the City University of New York Graduate Center, and Prof Darryl Jones, Professor of English, Trinity College Dublin
   
Caroline Reitz is Associate Professor of English literature at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the City University of New York Graduate Center. She specializes in Victorian literature and culture as well as contemporary female detective fiction and is co-editor of Dickens Studies Annual. She is the author of Detecting the Nation: Fictions of Detection and the Imperial Venture (2004) and numerous journal articles and chapters.
  
Darryl Jones (General Editor) is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches nineteenth-century literature and popular fiction. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Oxford World Classics editions of M. R. James's Collected Ghost Stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales, H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau, as well as Horror: A Very Short Introduction.

Product details

ISBN : 9780198862123

Author: 
Arthur Conan Doyle; Caroline Reitz; Darryl Jones
Pages
176 Pages
Format
Paperback
Size
196 x 129 mm
Pub date
Sep 2023
Series
Oxford World's Classics
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The Sign of the Four

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