Free Facsimiles of Sherlock Holmes Stories
Readers of this blog will note a certain minor obsession of mine with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s literary creation Sherlock Holmes. Stanford University is now publishing paper and PDF facsimiles of the original stories of Sherlock Holmes exactly as they appeared in Strand Magazine, over a century ago, complete with the wonderful illustrations of Sidney Paget. You can subscribe to either version for free.
Over 12 weeks from January through April 2006, Stanford will be republishing, free of charge, two early Holmes stories, “A Scandal in Bohemia” and “The Speckled Band”; the nine-part novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles; and the famous “last” encounter between Holmes and Moriarty, “The Final Problem.” If you would like to receive paper facsimiles of the original magazine releases, you may sign up on our website. If you would prefer to download the facsimile as a pdf from the website, each installment will be available on successive Fridays.
Discovering Sherlock Holmes - A Community Reading Project From Stanford University
If you can’t wait, you can certainly download these stories from many different places on the Net (they are now in the public domain), including 221B Baker Street and Project Gutenberg–see Sherlockian.net for plenty more– but this is something very special. It might even make a nice little Christmas gift for the mystery fans you know.
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