The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Twelve cases, each short enough for a commute, that taught the world what a detective sounds like.
- Listening time
- about 11 h 18 min
- Length
- 104,647 words
- First published
- 1892
- Public domain
- the author died in 1930
- Edition
- Edition and cover by Standard Ebooks, released CC0
- Download in the app
- 576 KB stored on your device
- Language
- English
- Shelf
- Start Here
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How it begins.
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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes · Arthur Conan Doyle · 1892
- MichaelStandardAmerican · male · the free engine0:37
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