Seriously, this guy hoped that his historical novels would be his true legacy to humanity, while he and all serious literary critics considered Sherlock Holmes to be entertainment literature that would be forgotten in the not-so-distant future.
>>25238450It is simply what sold more easily and also historic novels were already done with at the point he was writing them (sir Walter Scott). A good comparison is with Poe. Poe wanted to write comedies but he had to write horror just because it sold more.
for me it's chitty chitty bang bang
>>25238450because he's a hack "writer" who only survives in the popular consciousness due to shitlock holmes becoming a brand.
>>25238505Filtered
His historical fiction is far better than his Holmes stories.The White Company, Sir Nigel and Micah Clarke are some of the best historical novels ever written (haven't read Brigadier Gerard or any of the others yet)
>>25238532I'm sorry you don't understand art, Anon.
>>25238538I'm sorry you get filtered by books written in the 19th and early 20th century for mass audiences, ESL
>>25238470>Poe wanted to write comedies but he had to write horror just because it sold morequestion is, would a comedy by Poe be as good as his horror is?
>>25238592I've only read one comic thing by Poe. In his complete short stories there's this little piece which starts off sort of serious but gradually you realize it's a parody of his own Pit & Pendulum.Basically this guy is investigating some massive clock tower for some reason. (Maybe it's haunted or there's treasure there or something.) He ends up looking out of a window that's actually in the clock face and gets his head stuck. He sees the minute hand coming towards him and he's trying to pull his head back but it's stuck. Then the hand comes along and cuts his head off.His head falls down hundreds of feet to the ground. But the narrative just continues from the perspective of his head. He's like, "well, that was a setback, but I resolved to carry on the best I could without a body" or something. It's really dry. (And weird.)I only read it quickly a long time ago and might be misremembering it but it's something like that.
>>25238592the way he dunked on literary hacks is very funny
Was Shakespeare the first man to introduce the concept of art to the masses? Was Doyle the first tabloid writer to make a mark on the public counsciousness?
Brigadier Gerard is the best shit he wrote, funny as hell
>>25238592No, and we have proof of that (Never bet the devil your head is one of his only surviving works and it sucks).
>>25238505Sherlock Holmes was at least something new while historical fic was beyond passé by the time he was writing them.
>>25238450It's just less catchy than good ol' Sherlock. That said, my favourite thing he ever wrote was The Valley of Fear, which he admittedly tricked me into reading by smuggling it inside a Sholmes story.
>>25238813>No message could have pleased me better. I was already very well thought of by my superior officers. It was evident to me, therefore, that this sudden order meant that the regiment was about to see service once more, and that Lasalle understood how incomplete my squadron would be without me. It is true that it came at an inconvenient moment, for the keeper of the post-house had a daughter—one of those ivory-skinned, black-haired Polish girls—with whom I had hoped to have some further talk. Still, it is not for the pawn to argue when the fingers of the player move him from the square; so down I went, saddled my big black charger, Rataplan, and set off instantly upon my lonely journey.>My word, it was a treat for those poor Poles and Jews, who have so little to brighten their dull lives, to see such a picture as that before their doors! The frosty morning air made Rataplan's great black limbs and the beautiful curves of his back and sides gleam and shimmer with every gambade. As for me, the rattle of hoofs upon a road, and the jingle of bridle chains which comes with every toss of a saucy head, would even now set my blood dancing through my veins. You may think, then, how I carried myself in my five-and-twentieth year—I, Etienne Gerard, the picked horseman and surest blade in the ten regiments of hussars. Blue was our colour in the Tenth—a sky-blue dolman and pelisse with a scarlet front—and it was said of us in the army that we could set a whole population running, the women towards us, and the men away. There were bright eyes in the Riesenberg windows that morning which seemed to beg me to tarry; but what can a soldier do, save to kiss his hand and shake his bridle as he rides upon his way?
>>25238501Shitty chicken gang bang
>>25238841>Lasalle.Oh boy
>>25238728I saw a documentary once where it was claimed Poe’s true love was for comedy but that he didn’t write many because “they weren’t very good” and I would call that understatement of the century.https://poemuseum.org/never-bet-the-devil-your-head/In that link is his only to my knowledge surviving comedy story. It’s a lame story aimed at moralist critics of his work that revolves around a stupid pun. I can understand now why he didn’t write any others. His horror and detective and mystery stories were groundbreaking in contrast to that one which… ugh, that was just bad.
>>25238895>In that link is his only to my knowledge surviving comedy storydumbasshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_System_of_Doctor_Tarr_and_Professor_Fetherhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Some_Words_with_a_Mummyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_in_the_Belfryhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Predicamentthere's dozens more, i can't be bothered linking them
>>25238910Anon said 'to my knowledge.' No reason to be rude.Anyways I didn't find most of Poe's horror to be all that good. The Cask of Amontillado was the only one that was very good.
