The sign of four
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The sign of four
（Broadview editions）
Broadview Press, c2010
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Note
Chronology: p. 39-42
Bibliography: p. 215-218
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Arthur Conan Doyle's second Sherlock Holmes novel is both a detective story and an imperial romance. Ostensibly the story of Mary Morstan, a beautiful young woman enlisting the help of Holmes to find her vanished father and solve the mystery of her receipt of a perfect pearl on the same date each year, it gradually uncovers a tale of treachery and human greed. The action audaciously ranges from penal settlements on the Andaman Islands to the suburban comfort of South London, and from the opium-fuelled violence of Agra Fort during the Indian 'Mutiny' to the cocaine-induced contemplation of Holmes' own Baker Street.This Broadview Edition places Doyle's tale in the cultural, political, and social contexts of late nineteenth-century colonialism and imperialism. The appendices provide a wealth of relevant extracts from hard-to-find sources, including official reports, memoirs, newspaper editorials, and anthropological studies.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Arthur Conan Doyle: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
The Sign of Four
Appendix A: Domestic Context
Appendix B: Colonial Contexts: Accounts of the Indian "Mutiny," 1857-58
Appendix C: Colonial Contexts: The First and Second Anglo-Afghan Wars
Appendix D: Colonial Contexts: The Andaman Islands
Appendix E: Contemporary Reviews
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