A Study in Scarlet
Author: Conan Doyle Category: Crime Published: January 1, 1887 Language: English File Size: 3.6 MB Tags: Classics | Crime | Detective | Fiction | Historical | Mystery | Thriller |Theme:
A Study in Scarlet by Conan Doyle, explores the theme of Injustice and Hypocrisy.
Summary:
The novel is broken up into two parts, each containing seven chapters.
- The first part takes place in London and details Holmes and Watson investigating the murders of two American men.
- The second part, set in Utah, explains how the men ended up in America and why they were killed.
Famous Quotes:
“No man burdens his mind with small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so.”
“What you do in this world is a matter of no consequence. The question is what can you make people believe you have done.”
“To begin at the beginning.”
“To a great mind, nothing is little,′ remarked Holmes, sententiously.”
“One’s ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature”
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.”
“Let me see. What are my other shortcomings?”
“It’s quite exciting,” said Sherlock Holmes, with a yawn.”
“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”
“Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.”
“When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.”
“Read it up – you really should. There is nothing new under the sun.”
“I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.”
“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”
“They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains,” he remarked with a smile. “It’s a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.”
“I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.”
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