“Sherlock Holmes” makes its debut in the Pléiade: “Elementary!”
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Review After one hundred and thirty-eight years of success, the man from Baker Street enters the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade with four novels and fifty-six short stories published in two volumes. ★★★★☆
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"In the year 1878 I received the degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of London, and then went to Netley to follow the training prescribed for military surgeons ." Thus begins the story of a certain Watson, in the first part of "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes," published in 1887. Nothing suggests the destiny awaiting this legendary duo. The 21st-century reader stands moved on the threshold of legend. After 138 years of success, the man from Baker Street enters the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.
In this Holmesian "canon" - four novels and fifty-six short stories published in two volumes, besides the immense pleasure of (re)reading plots that have become classics, the exegesis teaches us what the famous method of investigation owes to Voltaire's "Zadig", that his hat with ears, a deerstalker , inspired by those of deer hunters, was added by his illustrators.
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