Short storyVictorian · 1892Study guide · no full textGentle

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The pleasure is not the solution but the demonstration. Read one story twice — once for the plot, once to find the clue planted in the first paragraph that you were told was irrelevant.

Justice Class Identity Science

Study guide

This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.

“You see, but you do not observe.”

The cast, in the Character Atlas →Literary devices →Where it sits in time →

Go deeper

Identity — how other works handle it →Class — how other works handle it →Justice — how other works handle it →

Now read the first page with all of this in mind.

The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.

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