tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624667670548837453.post2944014553631286100..comments2019-10-25T14:19:53.700-07:00Comments on Personal and Literary Reflections: The Structure of a Series: Conan DoyleKetlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624667670548837453.post-34817849087805974412012-05-19T15:39:14.200-07:002012-05-19T15:39:14.200-07:00Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. An odd situation that&...Yes, yes, yes, yes and yes. An odd situation that's made more peculiar by Penguin allowing both stories to appear with the same beginning in its <i>Complete Sherlock Holmes</i> books. One would have expected the editor(s) to put things back to how they should have been in the first place.Ketlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624667670548837453.post-47804193548082141312012-05-19T12:55:30.666-07:002012-05-19T12:55:30.666-07:00The Cardboard Box was removed? Its beginning was t...The Cardboard Box was removed? Its beginning was transferred to The Resident Patient? Then, The Cardboard Box was readmitted? So now two stories have the same beginning? Have I followed this?Paul Shackleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04180596532266581425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624667670548837453.post-28978406549991886552012-05-19T01:52:22.665-07:002012-05-19T01:52:22.665-07:00It struck me as odd that this should have happened...It struck me as odd that this should have happened, particularly as the stories appeared together in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, but a little investigating has uncoverd this (from Wikipedia);<br /><br />'The first London edition of the Memoirs in 1894 did not include "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", although all twelve stories had appeared in the Strand Magazine. The first U.S. edition did include the story, but it was very quickly replaced with a revised edition that omitted it.<br /><br />The reasoning behind the suppression is unclear. In Britain the story was apparently removed at Doyle's request as it included adultery and so was unsuitable for younger readers. This may have also been the cause for the rapid removal of the story from the U.S. edition, and some sources state that the publishers believed the story was too scandalous for the American public.<br /><br />As a result, this story was not republished in the U.S. until many years later, when it was added to His Last Bow. Even today, most American editions of the canon include it with His Last Bow, while most British editions keep the story in its original place in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.<br /><br />Additionally, when the story was removed from the Memoirs, its opening pages, where Holmes emulates Dupin, were transferred to the beginning of "The Adventure of the Resident Patient". In some later U.S. editions of the Memoirs, which still omit "The Adventure of the Cardboard Box", this transfer still appears.'<br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Memoirs_of_Sherlock_Holmes<br /><br />So there you go. An explanation, of sorts.Ketlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5624667670548837453.post-57089896738079891702012-05-19T01:35:34.149-07:002012-05-19T01:35:34.149-07:00The interesting thing for me regarding the Holmes ...The interesting thing for me regarding the Holmes stories are the near-identical beginnings of two of them: The Resident Patient and The Adventure of the Cardboard Box. A bit of a mystery in itself.Ketlanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08588156788583883454noreply@blogger.com