No characters in English literature since those in the Great Dickens gallery have taken so firm a hold upon the British and American imagination as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. This selection draws the best stories from the several Sherlock Holmes volumes, and shows how the famous detective and hi[...]

The very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are immediately in fine form. The mystery itself, its solution [...]

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A third slipcased compendium of four classic Sherlock Holmes novels features more than 1,000 accompanying notes, 350 illustrations and period photographs, and a wealth of new theories, in a volume that includes the works, A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, and The V[...]

The modernist masterpiece that is Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations has been given new life with the publication of John Ashbery's "dazzling" (The Economist) new translation, widely hailed as one of the literary events of the year. Presented with French text in parallel and a preface by its translator,[...]

An accessible introduction to Schopenhauer's philosophy, this 1839 work was awarded first place in a competition held by the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences. The essay examines the issue of free will versus determinism, exhibiting many elements characteristic of the philosopher's thought. Clear [...]

Nacio Herb Brown and Arthur Freed's musical. This songbook is from the 1983 stage version, which itself was adapted from the 1952 movie and the plot closely adheres to the original. Set in Hollywood in the waning days of the silent screen era, it focuses on romantic lead Don Lockwood, his sidekick C[...]