Arthur Conan Doyle`s most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, heralds the return of Sherlock Holmes after his apparent death in The Final Problem. This masterwork of crime writing expertly fuses suspense and dread with a primal terror of the weird, unfamiliar, and invisible.Set in Devonshire, the lonely moorlands and the imposing Baskerville Hall provide the sinister backdrop over which the daemonic hound casts an ominous shadow over the landscape. The sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville raises many questions. Could his death be linked to the legend of a hound that has terrorized his family for multiple generations? Only Sherlock Holmes can unravel the mystery...
В книге представлены «Приключения Шерлока Холмса» английского писателя Артура Конан Дойла. Все произведения даны на языке оригинала.Знакомство с оригиналами творений классиков зарубежной литературы, науки, искусства поможет сегодняшним студентам составить более точное представление о неповторимой стилистике каждого автора, а также расширит словарный запас, знания об истории языка, фразеологии....
ISBN: 9785534056808
Издательство:
Юрайт
Дата выхода: ноябрь 2017
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of literature. Some of Gaskell`s best known novels are Cranford, North and South and Wives and Daughters.
ISBN: 978-5-521-06836-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: март 2018
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Short Stories is a collection of beautifully written and gripping tales, including several ghost stories and Crowley Castle story, featuring a love triangle of sorts. It makes the perfect evening or summer reading for adults and young adults alike.
ISBN: 978-5-521-07711-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: июль 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh. He received his early education from Jesuits, but as an adolescent rejected Christianity, proclaimed himself an agnostic and later embraced Spiritualism. Attracted to both literature and medicine, Conan Doyle sold his first story to Chambers`s Edinburgh Journal whilst studying to become a doctor at the University of Edinburgh. He completed his studies and established an unsuccessful ophthalmology practice in Plymouth. With few patients, Conan Doyle supplemented a rather meagre income through writing. His first major success came at the end of 1887, with the publication of A Study in Scarlet in Beeton`s Christmas Annual. Published in book form the following summer, the short novel...
Having firmly established the characters of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson in the novels A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was retained by The Strand Magazine to contribute a series of twelve short stories, which began with `A Scandal in Bohemia` in 1891 and were published monthly for the next year.The stories, in which the master sleuth receives a stream of clients presenting him with baffling and bizarre mysteries in his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, were instantly popular and by the time of the publication of the final story, `The Copper Beeches`, they had become the mainstay of the magazine.They included such classic tales as `The Five Orange Pips` and `The Adventure of the Speckled Band`, and...
ISBN: 9781840228311
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: декабрь 2021
With an Introduction by Dr. Julian Wolfreys, this edition of "The Adventures & Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" contains the earliest cases of the greatest fictional detective of all time. It comprises the complete "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", newly reprinted from the original text of "The Strand Magazine". It is illustrated by Sidney Paget, the finest of illustrators, and the man from whom our images of Sherlock Holmes and his world derive. This is the first of three volumes of "The Complete Sherlock Holmes". The three books present all the Holmes stories arranged chronologically in order of first publication.
ISBN: 9781853260339
Издательство:
Wordsworth Editions Ltd.
Дата выхода: январь 2004
Вниманию читателей предлагается полный, неадаптированный текст десяти лучших рассказов Артура Конан Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе. Издание рассчитано на лиц, владеющих основами английского языка и совершенствующих свои навыки в нем.
ISBN: 978-5-7974-0397-5
Издательство:
Икар
Дата выхода: июль 2014
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature`s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08095-3
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume is a collection of famous stories about the legendary sleuth. Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature`s greatest detective team — the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson.
ISBN: 978-5-521-08096-0
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
Arthur Conan Doyle was a British writer best known for his detective fiction featuring the character Sherlock Holmes. His works also include fantasy and science fiction, as well as plays, romances, non-fiction and historical novels. This volume is a collection of stories about a world-famous detective, and his assistant Dr. Watson, investigating the cases of The Speckled Band, and The Crown Diamond. .
ISBN: 978-5-521-08098-4
Издательство:
Т8
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2018
