Beyond the City

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by William Merritt Chase, Walter Sickert and James Tissot. Two elderly bachelors and a household of young women in a Norwood suburb, and a widow next door who bicycles, boxes and holds opinions — after which the neighborhood is never the same. Conan Doyle wrote this in 1892 between the Holmes stories; it is a domestic comedy about the New Woman, af...