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Книги Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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A mysterious lodger has just rented rooms at Mrs Warren's lodging house. She is frightened by this strange individual, so she asks Sherlock Holmes to help. He and Dr Watson discover cryptic messages, a sinister secret society with international roots and a terrible murder... |
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It is more than a century since the ascetic, gaunt and enigmatic detective, Sherlock Holmes, made his first appearance in A Study in Scarlet. From 1891, beginning with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the now legendary and pioneering Strand Magazine began serialising Arthur Conan Doyle's matchless tales of detection, featuring the incomparable sleuth patiently assisted by his doggedly loyal and lovably pedantic friend and companion, Dr Watson. The stories are illustrated by the remarkable Sydney Paget from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive and who first equipped Holmes with his famous deerstalker hat. The literary cult of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of fading with time as each new generation comes to love and revere the penetrating mind and ruthless logic which were the undoing of so many Victorian master criminals. |
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«Sherlock Holmes is the greatest fictional detective in the world. The hero of 56 short stories and four novels, he is so convincing that letters still arrive at 221b Baker Street seeking his help, and when it was thought that he had died in his clash with the evil Professor Moriarty ('the Napoleon of Crime') young men in London wore black armbands. This handsome edition, bound in real cloth, with head and tail bands, a ribbon marker, top edge gilt and a gold-blocked jacket, presents all of the short stories, many illustrated by Sidney Paget, who prepared these drawings for the original publication in «The Strand Magazine». It also contains the four novels: «A Study in Scarlet» in which Holmes and Dr Watson first meet, «The Sign of the Four», «The Valley of Fear» and the chilling masterpiece «The Hound of the Baskervilles». This title features Introduction by David Stuart Davies, former editor of «Sherlock Holmes: The Magazine».» |
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Sherlock Holmes is a very clever man. When people have strange, difficult problems, they come to him. Where is Mr Hosmer Angel? Which student saw the exam paper before the exam? Why is somebody following Miss Smith? Can you find the answers before Sherlock Holmes does? Penguin Readers — блестящая коллекция художественной литературы, адаптированная к семи уровням сложности языка (от Easystarts до Advanced). Книги, написанные на британском и американском английском языке, представлены в трёх различных сериях — современная, классическая и оригинальная литература. Информация, представленная на обложке, помогает правильно выбрать книгу в соответствии с интересами читателя, его возрастом и уровнем владения языком. Хотя эти книги предназначены главным образом для экстенсивного чтения, они имеют также образовательную ценность. Penguin Readers привлекательно и динамично оформлены. Любой читатель, даже с самый взыскательный, сможет найти свою книгу в этой великолепной коллекции. Большинство книг сопровождаются аудио приложением на Audio CD с высококачественной записью художественного чтения книги в исполнении актёров. |
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Three more intriguing cases for Sherlock Holmes: The Speckled Band, The Dancing Men and The Red-Headed League. |
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close — the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure. However illogical as a detective story, 'The final Problem' has proved itself an unforgettable tale. The stories that precede it included two narratives from Holmes himself, on a mutiny at sea and a treasure hunt in a Sussex country house, as well as a meeting with his brilliant brother Mycroft, of whom Holmes says, 'If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning from any armchair, my brother would be the greatest criminal agent that ever lived.' |
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He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them Sherlock Holmes, scourge of criminals everywhere, whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion, and his faithful colleague Dr Watson, solve these breathtaking and perplexing mysteries. In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips and Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous and devilishly difficult problems. The Penguin English Library includes 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War. |
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Undoubtedly the best-known detective in literature, Sherlock Holmes was the creation of British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), who endowed his super sleuth with an extraordinary facility for solving crimes. Drawing on his remarkable powers of observation and deduction, coupled with an encylopedic knowledge of crimes and criminals, Holmes seeks out his prey in the London underworld, where no evildoer is safe from his keen wits and tenacious pursuit. |
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Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on — in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best. |
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«Que fait Sherlock Holmes toute la journée? Il déduit et, de déduction en déduction, il découvre pourquoi les moutons boitent quand les chevaux de course disparaissent, pourquoi un homme en fait chanter un autre et pourquoi le colonel Barclay s'effondre, mort, dans son salon. C'est très clair,» élémentaire, mon cher Watson ! «Et les onze énigmes deviennent de simples histoires d'amour, de vengeance et de mort. Dans ce dernier volume de la série des Sherlock Holmes, le célèbre détective anglais affronte un adversaire aussi intelligent que lui, le professeur Moriarty, criminel génial et machiavélique. Le duel aura lieu dans les montagnes suisses.» |
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it After a harrowing tour in Afghanistan, Dr. Watson returns to London to convalesce at 221B Baker Street, home to the enigmatic Sherlock Holmes. Their lives are irrevocably thrown together by news that a man has been found dead in a grimy 'ill-omened' house, with the word rache — German for revenge — written in blood on the wall. This grisly discovery is complicated further by the look of utter horror on the victim's face, and the complete absence of any wounds on the body or sign of a struggle. First published in 1887, A Study in Scarlet is the remarkable first-outing of one of literature's most famous partnerships. |
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Originally published in 1903-1904, The Return of Sherlock Holmes is the thirteen-story collection of one of the greatest-ever fictional detectives. Three years after the supposed death of Sherlock Holmes and his archenemy Professor Moriarty in the torrent of Reichenbach Falls, Holmes makes a disguised reappearance to Baker Street and his good friend Dr Watson. Featuring one of Holmes' greatest adversaries, Charles Augustus Milverton, and trademark astute logic, forensic science, murder, crytograms and magic, this collection retains all the hallmark brilliance of Arthur Conan Doyle's best work. |
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From the strange case of The Red-Headed League to the extraordinary tale of The Engineer's Thumb, Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr. Watson grapple with treachery, murder, and ingenious crimes of all kinds. But no case is too challenging, no mystery insoluble, for the immortal detective's unique powers of deduction. |
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Pocas veces en la historia de la literatura un personaje de ficción alcanza tal celebridad que incluso oscurece la figura de su propio creador, y el caso de Sherlock Holmes es uno de los más representativos. Primera novela del mítico detective, “Estudio en escarlata” gira en torno a un crimen cometido en Londres y cuya trama se relaciona con la secta mormona y su cuna, el estado de Utah. “El valle del terror” suma a las habituales dosis de intriga y aventura ingredientes tan atractivos como la inquietante sombra del principal adversario del detective, el archicriminal Dr. Moriarty, que planea a lo largo de toda la novela. |
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«Después de la publicación de su primer caso en «Estudio en escarlata», hubo que esperar tres años para que, en 1890, Sherlock Holmes reanudara su actividad resolviendo el misterio que se le planteaba en «El signo de los cuatro». Novela previa aún a la sucesión de relatos que poco más tarde habrían de catapultar a la celebridad al famoso detective y a su creador, Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), su acción gira en torno a los avatares de un fabuloso tesoro en la India colonial, afirmándose en sus páginas los que habrían de ser ya en adelante los sugerentes y pintorescos rasgos de la personalidad del brillante investigador.» |
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The Penguin English Library edition. As usual with the Sherlock Holmes stories it is very hard to say which are the best — but there are many stories here which would get the vote — ranging from The Boscombe Valley Mystery to the wonderful Adventure of Silver Blaze, from the Adventure of the Norwood Builder to A Case of Identity, but above to the uniquely strange and macabre Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb. |
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The Penguin English Library edition. Many readers would claim that The Adventure of the Copper Beeches or The Man with the Twisted Lip was their favourite Sherlock Holmes story — but then that would be doing an injustice to The Adventure of the Yellow Face and The Problem of Thor Bridge. It is just as well that in the end we do not have to choose — as if we did then there would be no doubt it should be The Adventure of the Six Napoleons. |
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Heroes from classic novels are so popular and have become part of our lives, even without knowing it! We love them, hate them, or identify with them. Selection of thoughts and quotes from some of the most remarkable authors and philosophers in the mankind history. |
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