For sixty years (1891-1950) The Strand Magazine was a popular source for the best in fiction, featuring the works of some of the greatest authors of the 20th century including Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Rudyard Kipling, G.K.Chesterton, Leo Tolstoy, Georges Simenon and, of course, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Founded by George Newnes in 1890 and edited by H Greenhough Smith from 1891 to 1930, the Strand aimed at a mass market family readership. The content was a mixture of factual articles, short stories and serials most of which were illustrated to some extent. Despite expense and production difficulties, Newnes aimed at having a picture on every page - a valuable selling point at a time when the arts of photography and process engraving were in their infancy. "A monthly magazine costing sixpence but worth a shilling" was the slogan the publicity-conscious Newnes used to advertise the Strand – which was half the price of most monthlies of the period.
When the first Sherlock Holmes short story –"A Scandal in Bohemia"- was published in the July 1891 issue of the Strand Magazine, circulation rose immediately. Arthur Conan Doyle had already published two full-length Holmes stories, A Study in Scarlet and the Sign of Four, neither approaching the success of the short stories which were to follow. Indeed, when The Sign of Four was published in book form in 1890, the Athenaeum commented that "Dr Doyle’s admirers will read the little volume through eagerly enough, but they will hardly care to take it up again". However, within two years, the combination of Sherlock Holmes and the Strand had made Conan Doyle one of the most popular authors of the age. Fifty-six Holmes stories appeared in the magazine from 1891 to 1927, many of them illustrated by Sidney Paget’s now famous drawings.
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The Strand Magazine, Volume II, Temmuz - Aralık 1891
Ciltli 6 sayı 18 X 25 X 3,5 cm
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