Monatsarchive: Mai 2017

The Valley of Fear – Arthur Conan Doyle

In an old English house is a murder mystery which seems insoluble. The scenes suddenly change to America and the murder syndicate of an anarchistic community. Here broods the shadow of horrible fear, but it is dissipated by the investigations and dramatic coup of a man who is a strange and interesting character. .. Thousands of people from all over the world have for years been writing to Conan Doyle, begging for another story about Sherlock Holmes, the most popular fiction hero of the century. At last he has complied. For many months he worked on this story, to make it worthy of the great detective, his hero. Here it is— A … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Poison Belt – Arthur Conan Doyle

In the course of its serene spinning on through space the earth runs into a belt or stratum of poisonous vapor, which is deadly to every living thing on earth. The only warning given is an inexplicable blurring of Frauenhofer’s lines in the spectroscope, and Professor Challenger, the hairy, fiery-tempered scientist, is the only man keen enough to foresee what is coming. Behold then, the nations of the earth, one by one on a bright summer day, succumbing, suddenly insensible, to the poison vapor. Every animal thing suffers alike; birds fall dead from the branches; horses drop as they stand in their shafts; men drop at their work or play. Engineers falling at … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Lost World – Arthur Conan Doyle

“The Lost World” is an amazing account of an adventurous expedition into the unexplored wilds of South America in search of a strange species of prehistoric animal which was discovered alive by an English scientist whose weird tale of his experiences and whose specimens and photographs were supposed by his confreres to have been forged by a maniac. The story is told in the first person by a young journalist, who accompanied the explorers sent out to the Amazon to verify the professor’s report. That love rather than science is the object of the narrator’s adventure is of little account, for once the reader has entered this “Lost World,” he becomes a part … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Sir Nigel – Arthur Conan Doyle

In “Sir Nigel” we have a wonderfully fine romance of the Fourteenth Century, with all the brilliant pageantry, the barbarity and the sweet chivalry of the Middle Ages. This is unquestionably one of Conan Doyle’s masterpieces — his splendid art at its maturest — and maybe his ripest, most complete work.

Sir Nigel

Format: Paperback.

Sir Nigel.

ISBN: 9783849690090

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

The tale, at its outset, traces the fortunes of the family of Loring of the Manor of Tilford in Surrey, many of whose scions had been prominent in the service of the Norman and Angevin Kings of England, against the backdrop of … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Hound of the Baskervilles – Arthur Conan Doyle

Another, and one of the best known adventures of Sherlock Holmes, lets him dive into an old English west country legend. One of the squires of Baskerville in a drunken frolic, it is said, sold himself, for a consideration, to the evil one. Forever afterwards, an immense and hideous hound at times haunted the moors at night …

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Format: Paperback.

The Hound of the Baskervilles.

ISBN: 9783849690083

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Summary of the Plot (from Wikipedia):

Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to investigate the death of his friend, Sir Charles Baskerville. Sir Charles was found dead on the grounds of his … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

The Tragedy of the Korosko – Arthur Conan Doyle

This book is one of the most pleasing pieces of work that has come from Dr. Conan Doyle’s versatile pen. There is not a jarring note sounded in the whole story, there is not a single character introduced that is not sympathetically pictured, that does not make immediate and successful appeal to the imagination of the reader. The plot is full of dramatic power, and it does not nag for an instant. Even the political discussions are lively and entertaining reading. A Desert Drama may not take rank as literature with Micah Clarke or The White Company, but it is most emphatically a book to be read and enjoyed by thousands. … Read more.../Mehr lesen ...

Uncle Bernac – Arthur Conan Doyle

Doyle is evidently gifted with the remarkable talent to successfully stand with the peers in the arena of book writing. ” Sherlock Holmes ” was his master creation among the mysterious in character delineation. Then came “The Refugees,” “Micah Clark,” “Rodney Stone” and other works of an entirely different character. “Uncle Bernac” is an historical romance dealing with Napoleon’s threatened invasion of England. The hero crosses from England into France and has many dramatic and remarkable experiences. In the field of fiction Conan Doyle’s books are among the best sellers. “Uncle Bernac,” a Memory of the Empire, makes no exeception there. 

Uncle Bernac

Format: Paperback.

Uncle Bernac.

ISBN: 9783849690236

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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 ...