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The Valley of Fear
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 […]
The Poison Belt
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 […]
The Lost World
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 […]
The Sacred Writings of St. Francis of Assisi
The Sacred Writings of St. Francis of Assisi Saint Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher, as well as founder of the men’s Order of Friars Minor, the women’s Order of Saint Clare, the Third Order of Saint Francis and the Custody of the Holy Land. He is also one of the […]
The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali
The Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali – Charles Johnston The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are in themselves exceedingly brief, yet they contain the essence of practical wisdom, set forth in admirable order and detail. The theme, if the present interpreter be right, is the great regeneration, the birth of the spiritual from the psychical man: the […]
Sir Nigel
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 […]
The Hound of the Baskervilles
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 […]
The Tragedy of the Korosko
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 […]
Uncle Bernac
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 […]
Rodney Stone
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 […]