At the very beginning of this dramatic final Sherlock Holmes novel the renowned detective receives a coded message from a secret contact in the underworld – the underworld of Sherlock’s arch-enemy Professor Moriarty – warning of imminent danger to a prominent citizen, and just when Sherlock had succeeded in decoding the message a Scotland Yard Inspector calls on him to announce that the citizen in question had just been murdered.
That leads Sherlock, Doctor Watson and Inspector MacDonald (…)
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"The Valley of Fear" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1915)
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Selected short stories (1914-1920) by Robert Walser
18 mars, par Robert WalserA selection of short prose works – veritable prose poems – published in various Swiss and German newspapers during the sombre second decade of the 20th century by the very gifted Swiss poet and writer Robert Walser (1878-1956), author of the memorable story The Promenade, similar in spirit and tone to all of these charming texts.
An e-book, with the original German-language texts in an annex, is available below.
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"The Return of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1905)
11 mars, par Arthur Conan DoyleA collection of 13 Sherlock stories published by Arthur Conan Doyle between September 1903 and December 1904.
Beginning most effectively at the start of The Adventure of the Empty House with Sherlock’s own account of how he had managed to escape death at the hands of the infamous Professor Moriarty – an event that had provoked enormous disappointment in the reading public and a widespread demand for Sherlock’s return – and concluding with one of his most memorable accounts of all, The (…) -
"The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1901)
4 mars, par Arthur Conan DoyleVery simply : the most famous – and probably the greatest – novel in the history of crime fiction, a dramatic murder mystery in the eerie, desolate and dangerous Dartmoor Downs in Devon where Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion and formidable narrator Doctor Watson investigate at great risks to themselves the menace of a mysterious wild beast that threatens to put an end to one of the most ancient dynasties of the region [1].
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"The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
26 février, par Arthur Conan DoyleThe second collection of Sherlock stories published by Arthur Conan Doyle in book form, including two of the most memorable of them all : The Greek Interpreter, introducing Sherlock’s elder brother Mycroft who has an even greater gift of precise reasoning and deduction than his own, although he’s too phlegmatic to ever go out and do the field investigations necessary to obtain proof for a law court the way Sherlock does, being a member of the extraordinarily antisocial Diogenes club whose (…)
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"The Inconsiderate Waiter" by J. M. Barrie (1893)
19 février, par J. M. BarrieA diner in the restaurant of a gentleman’s club in London is scandalized by the uncommonly inattentive and distracted behavior of his waiter, and although gentlemen mustn’t be seen talking to or in any way taking an interest in members of the lower classes such as waiters, the gentleman in question in the course of reprimanding the waiter does find out rather a lot about his dramatic domestic situation, and even manages willy-nilly to do something about it.
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"The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)
12 février, par Arthur Conan DoyleThe first book of Sherlock Holmes stories, regrouping stories that had previously been published by Arthur Conan Doyle in diverse British and American newspapers and magazines.
A splendid set of 12 excellent tales recounted by Sherlock’s faithful friend Dr. Watson with brio and colour, always concentrating on the superb reasoning and deductive skills of the first and most famous scientific detective in literary history, the one and only Sherlock Holmes.
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"The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (1891)
5 février, par Oscar WildeA sophisticated, very immoral and very witty account of the rise and fall of the most beautiful (to use the flowery terminology of this classic of decadent aestheticism) young man of his time, Dorian Gray, who sells his soul at the age of twenty to remain as pristinely handsome and youthful as he was then for the rest of his life – at the expense of his morals, of his social reputation, of his psychological and physical well-being and, especially, of the condition of the eponymous portrait (…)
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"The Sign of the Four" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1890)
29 janvier, par Arthur Conan DoyleAt the beginning of this second Sherlock Holmes novel [1] the eponymous detective is resorting to opium to allay his boredom when a young woman arrives to ask him – and Doctor Watson – to accompany her to a rendezvous that promises to reveal the mysterious fate of her father ten years previously. Off they go to begin to unravel, thanks to the quite extraordinary reasoning powers of the by-now-everyone’s-favorite detective, not only the fate of the poor lady’s husband but also of the fabulous (…)
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"A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)
22 janvier, par Arthur Conan DoyleThe very first Sherlock Holmes story and the author’s first novel [1], where Sherlock and Doctor Watson meet for the first time in “London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained”, get along famously from the start after Holmes asks Doctor Watson “What have you to confess now ? It’s just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.”, move into shared lodgings in the thereafter-famous (…)