| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Contributor(s): Doyle, Arthur Conan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1975959442 ISBN-13: 9781975959449 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $15.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Italian Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 1020 |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.97 lbs) 328 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer-excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. |
