by Aseem Gupta | Aug 28, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is one of those books whose cultural afterlife can obscure what is actually on the page. Sherlock Holmes has become shorthand for impossible intelligence, Dr John Watson for the loyal but slower companion, and...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 24, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four—also commonly published as The Sign of the Four—is the second major Sherlock Holmes narrative and one of the works that established the detective’s enduring personality. First published in 1890, the novel begins with Holmes bored...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 20, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet is remembered above all as the book that introduced Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, but its importance is larger than the arrival of two famous characters. First published in 1887, when the original text appeared in...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 16, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few autobiographical scenes have become as culturally familiar as the moment when Anne Sullivan spells water into Helen Keller’s hand while water runs over the other. It has come to represent Keller’s life so completely that the rest of her education can seem like an...
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 14, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Published on July 21, 2007, as confirmed in Scholastic’s original publication announcement, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is the seventh and final novel in J.K. Rowling’s original Harry Potter series. It begins almost immediately after the events of Harry...
