His Last Bow

A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow, featuring a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories that take place against the backdrop of the First World War. This edition contains a new introduction which offers a richly detailed contextual backdrop for understanding the stories of this volume as a work of war service.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Note on the Text


• Select Bibliography


• A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle


• HIS LAST BOW


• The Adventure of Wistaria Lodge


• The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans


• The Adventure of the Devil's Foot


• The Adventure of the Red Circle


• The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax


• The Adventure of the Dying Detective


• His Last Bow


• Explanatory Notes

About the author

Trish Ferguson is Associate Professor of English Literature at Liverpool Hope University. Her primary research focus is literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is the author of Literature and Modern Time: Technological Modernity, Glimpses of Eternity, Experiments with Time (2020), Victorian Fiction Beyond the Canon (2016), Victorian Time: Standardisations, Technologies, Catastrophes (2013), and Thomas Hardy's Legal Fictions (2013).

Darryl Jones (General Editor) is Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin, where he teaches nineteenth-century literature and popular fiction. He is the author or editor of ten books, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of M. R. James's Collected Ghost Stories, Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales, H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds and The Island of Doctor Moreau, as well as Horror: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2021).

Summary

A new edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's His Last Bow, featuring a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories that take place against the backdrop of the First World War. This edition contains a new introduction which offers a richly detailed contextual backdrop for understanding the stories of this volume as a work of war service.

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Conan Doyle
• Assisted by: Trish Ferguson (Editor), Trish (Liverpool Hope University) Ferguson (Editor), Ferguson Trish (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 10.07.2025
• EAN: 9780198864349
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886434-9
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford World's Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Traditional, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic crime, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form