血字研究（牛津世界经典系列） A Study in Scarlet

基本信息

Edited by:Nicholas Daly

Series:Oxford World's Classics

Format:Paperback / softback 192 pages

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Imprint:Oxford University Press

Edition:2 Revised edition

ISBN:9780198856047

Published:9 Mar 2023

Weight:148g

Dimensions:196 x 130 x 315 (mm)

Pub. Country:United Kingdom

Country of Origin:GB

Tariff Codes:49019900

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书籍简介

谋杀的猩红之线贯穿了无色的生命之线。在阿瑟-柯南道尔的《猩红的研究》中，一种流行的文化现象诞生了。我们见到了现代文学史上有名的两个人物：咨询侦探夏洛克-福尔摩斯和休病假回家的军医约翰-华生。通过华生，我们了解到这个古怪的人物是他在贝克街221号的新室友，然后他们遇到了一个案子：一个来这里的美国游客在布里斯顿路边的一所空房子里被杀，而警察掌握的线索是墙上用血红色的字母写的神秘的 "Rache"。

当福尔摩斯用他独特的法医方法开始工作时，在这起谋杀案的背后，一条关于爱情和复仇的纠缠不清的线索逐渐展开，把我们从伦敦的街头带到犹他州，然后再回来。正如尼古拉斯-戴利的导言所描述的那样，从这个扣人心弦的故事中成长起来的福尔摩斯和华生故事，使柯南-道尔成为他那个时代收入非常高的作家。他的作品已经家喻户晓，不仅激发了无数的改编和模仿，而且还产生了福尔摩斯博物馆、以福尔摩斯为主题的酒吧，以及从靠垫到拼图的一系列福尔摩斯商品。

不过，在这里，我们见到了成名之前的福尔摩斯和华生，我们可以看到他们对我们流行文化的非凡影响是如何来自于他们所处的维多利亚时代后期的世界。

There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life.' In Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet a popular cultural phenomenon is born. We meet two of the most famous characters in modern literary history: the consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, an army doctor home on sick leave, for the first time. Through Watson we learn a little about the eccentric figure who is his new room-mate at 221B Baker Street, before they encounter their first case: an American visitor to the city has been killed in an empty house off theBrixton Road, and the only clue the police have is the mysterious word 'Rache', scrawled in blood-red letters on the wall.

As Holmes sets to work with his unique forensic methods, behind the murder a tangled skein of love, religion, and revenge gradually unwinds, taking us from the streets of London to the UtahTerritory, and back again. As Nicholas Daly's Introduction describes, out of this gripping tale grew the Holmes and Watson stories that would make Conan Doyle the best-paid author of his time. His creations have become household words, inspiring not only countless adaptations and imitations, but a Sherlock Holmes museum, Sherlock Holmes-themed pubs, and a whole array of Holmesian merchandise, from cushions to jigsaw puzzles.

Here, though, we meet Holmes and Watson before they became famous, and we can see how theirextraordinary impact on our popular culture derives from the late-Victorian world from which they emerge.

作者简介

柯南•道尔出生于1859年，父母为查尔斯及玛丽•道尔。在9岁那年，他被送入史东尼赫斯天主教修会私立小学就读，但却在1875年离校时对天主教产生厌恶的情绪，转成为一名不可知论者。1876年至1881年间他在爱丁堡大学学习医学，毕业后作为一名随船医生前往西非海岸，1882年回国后在普利茅斯开业行医。不过他行医并不太顺利，在此期间道尔开始写作。在搬到朴茨茅斯的南海城（Southsea）后，他才开始花更多的时间在写作上。道尔发表于1887年的《比顿圣诞年刊》（Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887）的侦探小说《血字的研究》（A Study in Scarlet），该部小说的主角就是之后名声大躁的歇洛克•福尔摩斯。道尔本人也曾卷入两桩有趣的案件。一次是在1906年，一名英印混血律师被指控发送恐吓信以及虐待动物。虽然这名律师被逮捕后，依然有动物被虐待，警方却一口咬定这名律师有罪。值得注意的是在这次案件后，1907年英国建立了刑事上诉法庭。因此可以说道尔不但帮助了这名律师，还间接协助建立了一套冤案申诉机制。另一次则是在1908年，一名经营赌场的德国籍犹太人被控用棒子袭击一名82岁的老妇人。 到晚年时道尔开始相信唯灵论，甚至还曾以此为主题写过好几部小说，有人认为这和他的儿子在一战中丧生有关。柯南•道尔在1930年7月7日去世。

Conan Doyle was born in 1859 to Charles and Mary Doyle. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University between 1876 and 1881, graduating as a ship's surgeon to the West African coast, before returning in 1882 to practise in Plymouth. His medical practice did not go too well, however, and during this time Doyle began to write. It was only after moving to Southsea in Portsmouth that he began to spend more time on his writing. Doyle's first major work was the detective novel A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, which featured Sherlock Holmes of subsequent fame. Doyle himself was involved in two interesting cases. Once, in 1906, an Anglo-Indian lawyer was accused of sending threatening letters and of animal cruelty. Although the lawyer was arrested and animals were still being abused, the police flatly found the lawyer guilty. It is worth noting that after this case, the Court of Criminal Appeal was established in England in 1907. It is therefore possible that Doyle not only helped the lawyer but also indirectly helped to establish a mechanism for redress of grievances. Another time, in 1908, a German Jew who ran a casino was accused of attacking an 82-year-old woman with a stick. In his later years Doyle came to believe in animism and even wrote several novels on the subject, which some believe had something to do with the death of his son in World War I. Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.