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Arthur Conan Doyle 
Sign of Four 

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Arthur Conan Doyles 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 Doyles 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.
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Sprache Englisch ● Format EPUB ● Seiten 224 ● ISBN 9781460401729 ● Herausgeber Shafquat Towheed ● Verlag Broadview Press ● Erscheinungsjahr 2010 ● herunterladbar 3 mal ● Währung EUR ● ID 8017166 ● Kopierschutz Adobe DRM
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