The Stark Munro Letters

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by James Machin

Published December 2024 (Hardback) by Edinburgh University Press

ISBN Hardback: 9781399513937

The first new edition of The Stark Munro Letters since the early 1980s

Contains detailed introduction and scholarly apparatus
Extensive notes explore the historical and biographical references
Appendixes that collect original transcriptions of previously inaccessible archival material
Ideal for students and scholars interested in Arthur Conan Doyle, medical fiction, popular fiction, autobiographical fiction, and epistolary fiction

This is the first scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s epistolary novel, originally serialised in the Idler, 1894–95, and long out of print. With its first-hand testimony of the life of a doctor at the outset of his career in the late nineteenth century, The Stark Munro Letters will appeal to anyone with an interest in medical history. It is based on his experiences during the eight years he spent as a General Practitioner, before becoming a professional author in 1890. By some way the most autobiographical of Conan Doyle’s novels—written at the height of Holmes’s popularity—it is also the most personal in terms of presenting his worldview during his formative years, including ruminations on moral philosophy, religion, science, and evolutionary theory. Moreover, it is entertaining and incredibly vivid—a contemporary critic described the mercurial Cullingworth as ‘one of the finest characters Dr. Doyle has yet drawn’.

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Andrew Glazzard

Published October 2024 (Hardback) by Edinburgh University Press

ISBN Hardback: 9781474487337

The first new critical edition in a generation of the first volume of Sherlock Holmes short stories

Provides a detailed account of the stories’ textual and publication histories, with a full textual apparatus
Includes scholarly notes, to elucidate references and provide background information on names, places and events mentioned in the text
Includes reproductions of the 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget which appeared in the first British edition – including those that created the popular images of Holmes and Dr Watson

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, serialized in the Strand Magazine in 1891-2 and published in volume form in 1892, made Sherlock Holmes and his creator Arthur Conan Doyle famous. This, the first critical edition for twenty-five years, provides an authoritative text, a full textual apparatus, and a scholarly introduction and notes. It also reproduces a selection of the 104 illustrations by Sidney Paget which appeared in the first British edition.

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Round the Red Lamp

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Roger Luckhurst

Published July 2023 (Hardback) by Edinburgh University Press

ISBN Hardback: 9781399519182

An often overlooked collection in Arthur Conan Doyle’s career, these tales actually track the vital moment in his life when he decided to shift careers from provincial medic to celebrated London author

Detailed introduction, notes and scholarly apparatus
Appendixes that collect extra medical tales, Conan Doyle’s early contributions to the medical press and the two one-act plays that he produced from two of the stories, including one of his greatest successes for the stage, Waterloo
Introduction provides the medical context to help understand its place in Conan Doyle’s career

This is a scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s controversial collection of medical tales, first published in 1894 in the first flush of his fame. Conan Doyle had trained in medicine at Edinburgh University in the 1870s, and then spent eight years as a General Practitioner in Southsea, before deciding to become a professional author in 1890. The stories he collected in Round the Red Lamp are gathered from his medical training and incidents in his life as a provincial GP. Some of the stories are daring – dealing explicitly with child birth, sexually transmitted diseases and malpractice. Some are sentimental or comic vignettes. Some are Gothic horrors. On publication the shades of dark and light bewildered some of his readers and the medical realism outraged others. Round the Red Lamp is a vital collection in understanding Conan Doyle’s shift of profession from medic to author.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Jonathan Cranfield

Published March 2023 (Hardback) by Edinburgh University Press

ISBN Hardback: 9781474477529

The first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes including a detailed introduction, an essay on the text, a textual apparatus and explanatory notes

First new annotated edition for twenty-five years
Detailed notes explore the historical and biographical references within each story
Definitive textual apparatus collating the original magazine stories, the first book edition and Conan Doyle’s author’s edition of 1903
Ideal for students and scholars interested in Arthur Conan Doyle, detective fiction, popular fiction, empire fiction, late-Victorian magazine culture and British authorship

This exciting volume is the first scholarly edition of The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Includes the only current textual apparatus collated from different iterations of the stories along with a detailed introduction and an essay on the text based on contemporary scholarship.

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Memories and Adventures

Arthur Conan Doyle
Edited by Douglas Kerr

Published November 2021 (Hardback) by Edinburgh University Press

ISBN Hardback: 9781474433389

A scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle’s autobiography

The Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Arthur Conan Doyle serves Conan Doyle’s growing reputation as a significant force in the literature of Scotland, the English language and the world.

For the first time, the volume provides students, enthusiasts and researchers with everything needed for a serious appreciation of Memories and Adventures, the autobiography of Conan Doyle’s life in literature, medicine, travel, politics, war, sport and spiritualism.

This scholarly edition includes:

Ample explanatory notes, including data on the hundreds of historical figures and events mentioned in the book

A collation of four versions of the book including manuscripts

An introduction giving the history of the book’s composition, publication, revision, and reception, placing it in personal, historical and literary contexts

A full textual apparatus, showing all significant emendations and variations

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