Archiv der Kategorie: Classics of Fiction (English)

Rodney Stone – Arthur Conan Doyle

“Rodney Stone” is a rattling good novel, and we use the phrase advisedly as conveying a better notion of the book’s excellent qualities than might be given by some more elaborate and courtly turn of language. The pages are full of life, and this is the more remarkable because Dr. Conan Doyle has chosen a period which is for novelistic purposes at once dangerously near to, and far from, the present day. When George IV. was Prince of Wales and the prize-ring had not yet become corrupt, human emotions were no doubt not very different from what they were, are, and will be, but the fashion of expressing them was peculiar to a transitional … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Stark Munro Letters – Arthur Conan Doyle

Obviously “The Stark Munro Letters” have not the fascination of the unique Sherlock Holmes, but the book is a bit of real literature. It narrates the struggles of a young medical man to secure a footing, and the courage and energy of this person are not less than admirable. There are some excellent sketches of character apart from that of Dr. Munro himself, the principal one being that of a strange mixture of genius and charlatanism named Cullingworth, who nearly wrecks the manly Munro, but whose influence is happily thrown off in time. The book has a curious life-like quality, almost impelling a conviction that its material has been taken from facts … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” is the first of many short story collections featuring detective Sherlock Holmes and his partner Watson. Among many others, it contains the following episodes:

A Scandal In Bohemia
The Red-Headed League
A Case Of Identity
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Five Orange Pips
The Man With The Twisted Lip
The Adventure Of The Blue Carbuncle 

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Format: Paperback.

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

ISBN: 9783849690199

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Basics about the book (from Wikipedia):

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Refugees – Arthur Conan Doyle

It is a very enticing study in the manner of Dumas pere that Mr. Conan Doyle has written in “The Refugees.” Brightly conceived, carried through with spirit, gracefully and gaily written are the two strings that are woven together. In the earlier part we have a picturesque summary of events at the Court of Louis XIV about the fall of the Montespan and the marriage of the Maintenon. In the later part we have a rollicking tale of adventures in America during the close of the seventeenth century. “The Refugees” is a charming contribution to an admirable kind of literature.

The Refugees

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The Refugees.

ISBN: 9783849690861

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The Great Shadow – Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Great Shadow”is a romance with an historical background of the Scottish border in the time of Napoleon, who personifies the great shadow that hung over the land and filled men’s hearts with fears of an invasion. The principal figure in the tale is a young girl, wayward, impulsive, romantic, fickle, captivating, who, after having had two lovers among her fellows, runs off with a gallant Frenchman whose stories of the great world inflame her imagination. This mysterious stranger, who stays with the Scotch family for a long time, turns out to be an aide-de-camp to Napoleon, and when his chief returns from Elba he hastens to join him. The two young fellows … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Beyond the City – Arthur Conan Doyle

Two maiden ladies living “beyond the city” of London rent some of their land to a builder, who puts up three villas. The novel tells the story of the people who become tenants of these cottages, the most important of whom is a handsome widow who works for the emancipation of women and teaches her young girl neighbors to smoke cigarettes, drink stout, talk slang …

Beyond the City

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Beyond the City.

ISBN: 9783849690847

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A short biography of the author (from Wikipedia):

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle KStJ, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician, most noted … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Doings of Raffles Haw – Arthur Conan Doyle

In “The Doings of Raffles Haw,” Mr. Doyle tells the story of an English Monte Cristo, which is to say that it is cleverly told. There is rare satisfaction in following his ingenious deductions and daring movements; and the novel-reader who has not shared this pleasure has missed an enthralling study.

The Doings of Raffles Haw

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The Doings of Raffles Haw.

ISBN: 9783849690830

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

A mysterious millionaire, Raffles Haw, comes to reside in Tamfield in Staffordshire. Even before he arrives, people start gossiping about him. As his house is being constructed, people wonder at the number of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The White Company – Arthur Conan Doyle

The story of this historical novel is set in the years 1366 and 1367 in England, France and Spain. While the Black Prince Edward tries to help Peter of Castile back onto the throne of his kingdom, things get out of hand and the White Company, a group of archers, faces its defeat right before the Battle of Najera.

The White Company

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The White Company.

ISBN: 9783849690823

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

t the age of twenty, young Alleyne, son of Edric, leaves the Catholic abbey where he has been raised—intelligent, skilled, and well-liked, though sheltered and naive—and goes out to see the … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Sign of Four – Arthur Conan Doyle

In this rapid tale Mr. Doyle relates some further detective work of that gifted personage, Sherlock Holmes. Mr. Holmes finds existence lamentably dull in the momentary lack of new phases of abstruse crime until the plot really unfolds. The story is about East Indians, loot, very wicked retired army officers, murder, poisoned darts, an angelic and defrauded lady and the mastermind of Sherlock Holmes

The Sign of Four

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The Sign of Four.

ISBN: 9783849690816

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

The story is set in 1888. The Sign of the Four has a complex plot involving service in India, the Indian Rebellion of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...