The Victorian era saw the first great flowering of the detective story. Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, J.S. Le Fanu, and a host of others pioneered a genre of fiction that remains among the most popular today. Now, in Victorian Tales of Mystery and Detection, Michael Cox provides a sampling of the finest detective stories written from the 1840s to the early twentieth century.
Here readers will find tales displaying a vast array of detectives and villains--and a multitude of murder methods and motives--all chronologically arranged so that readers can follow the genre as it develops over time. For instance, in Conan Doyle's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle" we see an example of the many Sherlock Holmes escapades that popularized and came to typify the detective story for the Victorian public. And in the progression of the stories, we witness the evolution of the investigator from Poe's brilliant and eccentric Chevalier C. August Dupin, to Doyle's scientific Sherlock Holmes, into Robert Barr's cavalier Valmont (a possible model for Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot).
Including well-known stories by famous authors, as well as little known gems reprinted, this book offers hours of enjoyment and escape for all lovers of crime fiction.
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Michael Cox is Senior Commissioning Editor, Reference Books, at OUP and is currently compilingThe Oxford Chronology of English Literature on a freelance basis. His previous books includeA Dictionary of Writers and Their Works, Victorian Ghost Stories (with R. A. Gilbert),The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories, and The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories.
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- EditoreOxford Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2003
- ISBN 10 0192804480
- ISBN 13 9780192804488
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine578
- RedattoreCox Michael
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