Unpopular Opinions: Twenty-one Essays"The author calls this collection Unpopular Opinions, 'because,' she says, 'I have evidence that all the opinions expressed have in fact caused a certain amount of annoyance one way or another.' These selections, which appeared in print or were delivered as addresses between 1935 and 1945, may have annoyed a number of complacent persons, but it is certain that Miss Sayers's witty, urbane, and searching comments upon a wide range of subjects--from Christian mora;lity to the effect of the Gulf Stream upon the English character; from manly men to Aristotle on Detective Fiction--will delight everyone who has ever questioned the validity of established institutions. Fully one-third of the book is devoted to a skillful and disintegrating analysis of the provate lives of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, dne in the best manner of 'higher criticism,' which will facinate the admirers of the famous Baker Street detective. When and where did Sherlock Holmes go to college? What was Dr. Watson's first name? These are two of the questions which Miss Sayers examines with solemn and irresistable humor" -- |
Contents
Christian Morality | 3 |
The Gulf Stream and the Channel | 69 |
The Mysterious English | 78 |
Copyright | |
6 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
adventure Ęschylus ęsthetic appears Aristotle artist Baker Street believe Bell Bell's better Britain British Cęsar called Cambridge characters Christian Church common course creative detective fiction detective story England English Englishman Enlightenment error experience fact false feel foreign forgive G. K. Chesterton Gloria Scott Gulf Stream hand happened human imagination imitation kind language less liberty living look marriage Mary Morstan Matilda Briggs means merely mind moral Morstan murder Musgrave Ritual nature naughty never opinion ourselves paper perhaps person Plato poet poetic possible precisely probably reader reality reason recognise Red-Headed League representational art scientist seems sense Sherlock Holmes Sign of Four Spaulding speak Strand Magazine suggestion suppose thing tion Trevor Tripos true truth universe voice Watson whole Wilson woman women word writing