Splendid stuff. Your phrase "tremendously rereadable" for the Sherlock Holmes stories really gets to the heart of the matter. And so they are, perhaps more so than any other series of stories in existence. After a lifetime of rereading the stories with every instance a bit more immersive and fun it is the Holmes Watson alternate world as a whole, after all, that becomes an ever more enchanting and living terrain. So thanks to Baring-Gould and his and his obsessive and sometimes quirky "delving into the minutia." If you want standard scholarship and handy for on the run the single book Oxford volumes are solid and fun. If you want a slightly more standard best of a hundred years of Holmes / Watson / Conan Doyle Scholarship the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes is the way to go. But if you want a brilliant mind utterly enthralled with his subject and pulling no punches in bringing that world alive the Baring-Gould volumes are splendid and enchanting. Michael this was superb. Right up there with your inspired first volley against censorship and your first video on Seabury Quinn. Bravo.
Good Evening Sir Michael and ever wonderful Roger Essential to pass on the wishes for a wonderful Christmas to all within the walls of Stately Vaughn Manor. Thank you so much for a year of thought provoking insight and sheer entertaining commentary on why a dusty page is so vital. And of course with Christmas being almost upon us I look forward to the return of Mr Clock Best wishes Al The Goldkeyfourcolorkidownunda
I got that Baring-Gould set in July 2021 after my desire for those volumes was re-ignited by watching your videos. In previous decades, I had seen them now and again in big bookstores, but I had never made the move to purchase them. I’m glad I finally did. They are fantastic. Now they are an essential part of my own home library.
I had the new annotated ones for a while and then when I saw your first video on the older set I tracked them down on eBay and got them for a song. I couldn’t believe it because when I got them they were in like new condition. I think I’ll be looking at the Holmes stories in the new year. Great video as always.
Sabine Baring-Gould was also a bit of a folklorist, and a bunch of the songs that he collected have been marvelously brought to life by his Biographers Martin and Shan Graebe. Their albums are worth buting, but I believe that they are on RUclips.
Noted! I really need to upgrade my Holmes books, and I was looking at those New Annotated volumes initially. Let's be honest, either would probably be an invaluable bookshelf essential. Merry Christmas my friend!
I must tune in to your channel each time your videos appear for the greetings. They are unmatched on the internet. 😂 This happens whether I like the books or not. I am a big fan of the Holmes stories. Started reading them as a teenager after seeing the Basil Rathbone movies. I was shocked to learn Watson wasn’t a blithering idiot. Jeremy Brett’s interpretation of Holmes was fantastic.
Absolutely agree with you - Jeremy Brett's Holmes is as close as it's possible to be to how Conan-Doyle wrote him. Also agree with you about Michael's videos. For me, they are required viewing! 😊
Okay Michael. You got me! I purchased that original set for my SH collection years ago but I have to admit that I never even attempted to read them. Now, I need to pull them off my shelf and give them a go.
Terrific video. Those are interesting volumes. I read them from the old Carnegie Library in my hometown. Never have come across them in the wild. I have so many different Holmes collections... these really should really join them in my home library.
Baring-Gould also wrote a fictional biography of Sherlock Holmes, published as SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BAKER STREET. One of the chapters towards the end is his chronology in an easier to digest form than you'll find in his Annotated tomes. I encountered the biography in a community college library back when I was in high school and the huge annotated volumes a mere handful of years later. About a decade after that, I bought my own copy of the Baring-Gould Annotated in a very unwieldy blue covered single volume edition.
Wow, that is a huge set 😳. You should have put those in your ‘when is a book too big’ video 😉 I just learned that there are some S.H. Christmas books, so I’m looking forward to trying at least one next year.
Great video and a definite must-have for any Sherlock Holmes enthusiast! I find the annotated versions and nonfiction books about Holmes endlessly fascinating. I also like a lot of Holmes pastiches, although obviously a lot are just terrible - but still fun.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I had a young adult, annotated collection of the stories as a kid....and I'm not 100% positive I even read that! Sounds like a serious hole in my reading repertoire!
Oh no!!!! No, no, no, no!!!! I already have 4 editions of the Sherlock Holmes books! I don't need more! Not listening! *LA LA LA LA* lol All joking aside, I'm an avid Holmes fan (obviously). I went to his "boarding house" when I visited London (which I HIGHLY recommend to any fan, looks JUST like the books!), have a Litographs Sherlock Holmes shirt (if you are unfamiliar, they print the entire book on a T-shirt, very cool), and would have done my office/library in Sherlock Holmes had I not done it in Tolkien. Sir Doyle is right up there with Professor Tolkien for me on the list of great authors. I have read every Sherlock Holmes story that Sir Doyle has ever written and am abit of a purist in that I will not read any spinoff stories by other authors: only Sir Doyle for me! My favorite Holmes book I own is The Illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Great pictures and beautiful book!
"Here dwell together still two men of note Who never lived and so can never die: How very near they seem, yet how remote That age before the world went all awry. But still the game’s afoot for those with ears Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo: England is England yet, for all our fears- Only those things the heart believes are true. A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane As night descends upon this fabled street: A lonely hansom splashes through the rain, The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet. Here, though the world explode, these two survive, And it is always eighteen ninety-five." - 221B by Vincent Starrett
Just in case I don't get to see either of you, I assume that you and even Roger at least celebrate ON Christmas. So have a great time,and make sure that Roger stays reasonably sober.
An excellent pair of books. My father bought me this many years ago, but unfortunately it has an ugly cover and is one huge tome that is far too heavy. Definitely not one to read in bed! I would like to get the same edition you have, which is attractive and much easier to manage in two volumes.
I'm enjoying my journey through the Sherlock Holmes Canon. I'm going to read the memoirs of sherlock holmes for 2024. I don't know if my version is annotated or not, but I do know it has all the novels and short story collections in one hardcover book. Great review! 🙂❤📚
Which is true. There is very little mystery, or indeed detection, in most of the stories. They are great on atmosphere though, that is their strongest point for me.
Splendid stuff. Your phrase "tremendously rereadable" for the Sherlock Holmes stories really gets to the heart of the matter. And so they are, perhaps more so than any other series of stories in existence. After a lifetime of rereading the stories with every instance a bit more immersive and fun it is the Holmes Watson alternate world as a whole, after all, that becomes an ever more enchanting and living terrain. So thanks to Baring-Gould and his and his obsessive and sometimes quirky "delving into the minutia." If you want standard scholarship and handy for on the run the single book Oxford volumes are solid and fun. If you want a slightly more standard best of a hundred years of Holmes / Watson / Conan Doyle Scholarship the New Annotated Sherlock Holmes is the way to go. But if you want a brilliant mind utterly enthralled with his subject and pulling no punches in bringing that world alive the Baring-Gould volumes are splendid and enchanting. Michael this was superb. Right up there with your inspired first volley against censorship and your first video on Seabury Quinn. Bravo.
Thanks! I hadn’t had any coffee yet so this video could have gone very wrong. Glad I pulled it off.
Good Evening Sir Michael and ever wonderful Roger
Essential to pass on the wishes for a wonderful Christmas to all within the walls of Stately Vaughn Manor. Thank you so much for a year of thought provoking insight and sheer entertaining commentary on why a dusty page is so vital. And of course with Christmas being almost upon us I look forward to the return of Mr Clock
Best wishes Al The Goldkeyfourcolorkidownunda
Hello my friend!! Hello!!
Hello!
I really enjoyed Baring-Gould's "biography" of Holmes. I loved his speculation that Nero Wolfe was Holmes' son with Irene Adler....
I got that Baring-Gould set in July 2021 after my desire for those volumes was re-ignited by watching your videos. In previous decades, I had seen them now and again in big bookstores, but I had never made the move to purchase them. I’m glad I finally did. They are fantastic. Now they are an essential part of my own home library.
I had the new annotated ones for a while and then when I saw your first video on the older set I tracked them down on eBay and got them for a song. I couldn’t believe it because when I got them they were in like new condition. I think I’ll be looking at the Holmes stories in the new year. Great video as always.
Interesting volumes. Thanks , as always, for the info on them!
Sabine Baring-Gould was also a bit of a folklorist, and a bunch of the songs that he collected have been marvelously brought to life by his Biographers Martin and Shan Graebe. Their albums are worth buting, but I believe that they are on RUclips.
Noted! I really need to upgrade my Holmes books, and I was looking at those New Annotated volumes initially. Let's be honest, either would probably be an invaluable bookshelf essential.
Merry Christmas my friend!
And to you!
I must tune in to your channel each time your videos appear for the greetings. They are unmatched on the internet. 😂 This happens whether I like the books or not. I am a big fan of the Holmes stories. Started reading them as a teenager after seeing the Basil Rathbone movies. I was shocked to learn Watson wasn’t a blithering idiot. Jeremy Brett’s interpretation of Holmes was fantastic.
Absolutely agree with you - Jeremy Brett's Holmes is as close as it's possible to be to how Conan-Doyle wrote him. Also agree with you about Michael's videos. For me, they are required viewing! 😊
Jeremy Brett. Yes, the best ever. Oh Brett broods better and smarter than any actor in history.
I agree on Jeremy Brett. Absolutely fantastic.
Okay Michael. You got me! I purchased that original set for my SH collection years ago but I have to admit that I never even attempted to read them. Now, I need to pull them off my shelf and give them a go.
I'm glad you are still making videos. For some reason, I wasn't getting notifications, so I got about 2 months of your videos to catch up on. 😊
Yeah, I’m still around. Thanks for watching!
Terrific video. Those are interesting volumes. I read them from the old Carnegie Library in my hometown. Never have come across them in the wild. I have so many different Holmes collections... these really should really join them in my home library.
Baring-Gould also wrote a fictional biography of Sherlock Holmes, published as SHERLOCK HOLMES OF BAKER STREET. One of the chapters towards the end is his chronology in an easier to digest form than you'll find in his Annotated tomes.
I encountered the biography in a community college library back when I was in high school and the huge annotated volumes a mere handful of years later.
About a decade after that, I bought my own copy of the Baring-Gould Annotated in a very unwieldy blue covered single volume edition.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that one volume edition.
Are you sure you’re not me? That was exactly my progression through these stories.
Thank you
Wow, that is a huge set 😳. You should have put those in your ‘when is a book too big’ video 😉 I just learned that there are some S.H. Christmas books, so I’m looking forward to trying at least one next year.
Ha! They are rather large.
Boy I'd love to dive into those. I wish more classics were treated with such care and detail.
Nice deerstalker.
Great video and a definite must-have for any Sherlock Holmes enthusiast! I find the annotated versions and nonfiction books about Holmes endlessly fascinating. I also like a lot of Holmes pastiches, although obviously a lot are just terrible - but still fun.
😊
I also have this volume. I am surprised that we have the same books.
Another great video MKV! I'm going to have to read these one day!
Have you never read Sherlock Holmes!? Could you possibly have missed his greatest adventure: Blood Wings on Baker Street?
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 I had a young adult, annotated collection of the stories as a kid....and I'm not 100% positive I even read that! Sounds like a serious hole in my reading repertoire!
Roger needs a deerstalker, too. ++++
He does.
Oh no!!!! No, no, no, no!!!! I already have 4 editions of the Sherlock Holmes books! I don't need more! Not listening! *LA LA LA LA* lol
All joking aside, I'm an avid Holmes fan (obviously). I went to his "boarding house" when I visited London (which I HIGHLY recommend to any fan, looks JUST like the books!), have a Litographs Sherlock Holmes shirt (if you are unfamiliar, they print the entire book on a T-shirt, very cool), and would have done my office/library in Sherlock Holmes had I not done it in Tolkien. Sir Doyle is right up there with Professor Tolkien for me on the list of great authors. I have read every Sherlock Holmes story that Sir Doyle has ever written and am abit of a purist in that I will not read any spinoff stories by other authors: only Sir Doyle for me! My favorite Holmes book I own is The Illustrated Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Great pictures and beautiful book!
"Here dwell together still two men of note
Who never lived and so can never die:
How very near they seem, yet how remote
That age before the world went all awry.
But still the game’s afoot for those with ears
Attuned to catch the distant view-halloo:
England is England yet, for all our fears-
Only those things the heart believes are true.
A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
As night descends upon this fabled street:
A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
The ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
Here, though the world explode, these two survive,
And it is always eighteen ninety-five."
- 221B by Vincent Starrett
Just in case I don't get to see either of you, I assume that you and even Roger at least celebrate ON Christmas. So have a great time,and make sure that Roger stays reasonably sober.
An excellent pair of books. My father bought me this many years ago, but unfortunately it has an ugly cover and is one huge tome that is far too heavy. Definitely not one to read in bed! I would like to get the same edition you have, which is attractive and much easier to manage in two volumes.
I'm enjoying my journey through the Sherlock Holmes Canon. I'm going to read the memoirs of sherlock holmes for 2024. I don't know if my version is annotated or not, but I do know it has all the novels and short story collections in one hardcover book. Great review! 🙂❤📚
Thanks!
As someone who has worked in academia for most of my adult life, I can confirm that scholars will argue about any detail.
Creepy and flickering shadows of some Indian books should also be engulfed in the deepening shelves of Vaughan manor.
Great work. I'm impressed from beginning to end.
Thanks!
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle considered the Sherlock Holmes stories to be adventures, not mysteries.
Which is true. There is very little mystery, or indeed detection, in most of the stories. They are great on atmosphere though, that is their strongest point for me.
I would like to know where you got your deerstalker hat, please!
Hmmm I wonder if Sherlock could get to the mystery of criminolly's latest video 🤔
In The Mysterious Case of the Bolt Action Pen Sherlock Holmes reveals that people tend to like free stuff sent to them…and extra money too.
@@michaelk.vaughan8617 A most troubling development