by Aseem Gupta | Oct 10, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Few philosophical books are as famous, as frequently quoted, and as routinely transformed into something they were not as the Tao Te Ching. In modern English it often appears as a collection of serene sayings about flowing like water, letting go, avoiding struggle,...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 6, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
When Arthur Conan Doyle published The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes in 1927, Sherlock Holmes was no longer merely a successful fictional detective. He had become a cultural institution that Doyle had already tried, failed, and eventually agreed to resurrect. The volume...
by Aseem Gupta | Oct 3, 2019 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Arthur Conan Doyle’s His Last Bow occupies an unusual place in the Sherlock Holmes canon. It is neither a novel nor a single continuous sequence of adventures, but a collection of eight cases written across different years and retrospectively gathered in 1917. Some...
