Arthur Conan Doyle

5 FREE Bonus Books Inside SURPRISE GIFT How is this book unique? Formatted for E-Readers, Unabridged & Original version. You will find it much more comfortable to read on your device/app. Easy on your eyes. Includes: 17 Colored Illustrations and Biography The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. It was first published on 14 October 1892, though the individual stories had been serialised in The Strand Magazine between June 1891 and July 1892. The stories are not in chronological order, and the only characters common to all twelve are Holmes and Dr. Watson. As with all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories, those contained within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told by a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson. In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite. All of the stories within The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are told in a first-person narrative from the point of view of Dr. Watson, as is the case for all but four of the Sherlock Holmes stories. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry for Doyle suggests that the short stories contained in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes tend to point out social injustices, such as "a king's betrayal of an opera singer, a stepfather's deception of his ward as a fictitious lover, an aristocratic crook's exploitation of a failing pawnbroker, a beggar's extensive estate in Kent." It suggests that, in contrast, Holmes is portrayed as offering a fresh and fair approach in an unjust world of "official incompetence and aristocratic privilege". The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes contains many of Doyle's favourite Sherlock Holmes stories. In 1927, he submitted a list of what he believed were his twelve best Sherlock Holmes stories to The Strand Magazine. Among those he listed were "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" (as his favourite), "The Red-Headed League" (second), "A Scandal in Bohemia" (fifth) and "The Five Orange Pips" (seventh). The book was banned in the Soviet Union in 1929 because of its alleged "occultism", but the book gained popularity in a black market of similarly banned books, and the restriction was lifted in 1940.

FICTION HOUSE PRESS presents The Original Sherlock Holmes in THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES. It is a collection of 12 short stories which originally appeared in The Strand magazine in England from July 1891 to June 1892. They are presented in this book as facsimile reproductions of the originals. Included are: 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 Adventure of the Speckled Band, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb, The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet, The Adventure of the Copper Beeches.

**Ian McKellen was the WINNER of the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Best Actor in an Audio Drama (for Eugenie Grandet)** Sir Ian McKellen reads The Valley of Fear, the last of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's four Sherlock Holmes novels. The mystery begins with a coded warning of imminent danger, drawing the illustrious Sherlock Holmes and the faithful Dr. Watson to a secluded English country home. A trail of bewildering clues leads to sleuthing in the finest Holmesian tradition and the gripping backstory of a cult that terrorized a valley in the American West. First broadcast as Book at Bedtime on BBC Radio 4.

Set during the Hundred Years War, the protagonist of The White Company is a cloister-raised young nobleman who discovers that his father's will stipulated he travelled for a year before taking his vows.

Songs of Action is a classic war poetry collection by Arthur Conan Doyle. What of the mark? Ah, seek it not in England, A bold mark, our old mark Is waiting over-sea. When the strings harp in chorus, And the lion flag is o'er us, It is there that our mark will be.

Los mejores relatos de Holmes son El signo de los cuatro (1890), Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (1892), El sabueso de Baskerville (1902) y su ltimo saludo en el escenario (1917), gracias a los cuales se hizo mundialmente famoso y populariz el g nero de la novela polic aca. Surgi , y todav a pervive, el culto al detective Holmes. Gracias a su versatilidad literaria, Conan Doyle tuvo el mismo xito con sus novelas hist ricas, como Micah Clarke (1888), La compa a blanca (1890), Rodney Stone (1896) y Sir Nigel (1906), as como con su obra de teatro Historia de Waterloo (1894). Durante la guerra de los b ers fue m dico militar y a su regreso a Inglaterra escribi La guerra de los B ers (1900) y La guerra en Sur frica (1902), justificando la participaci n de su pa s. Por estas obras se le concedi el t tulo de sir en 1902. Durante la I Guerra Mundial escribi La campa a brit nica en Francia y Flandes (6 vol menes, 1916-1920) en homenaje a la valent a brit nica. La muerte en la guerra de su hijo mayor le convirti en defensor del espiritismo, dedic ndose a dar conferencias y a escribir ampliamente sobre el tema. Su autobiograf a, Memorias y aventuras, se public en 1924. Muri el 7 de julio de 1930 con 71 a os de un ataque al coraz n, en Crowborough (Inglaterra). Una estatua suya se encuentra en esa localidad donde residi durante 23 a os.

"Nouveaux myst res et aventures" de Arthur Conan Doyle. Arthur Conan Doyle, crivain et m decin cossais (1859-1930).

A Study in Scarlet is a detective mystery novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, introducing his new characters, "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes and his friend and chronicler, Dr. John Watson, who later became two of the most famous characters in literature. Conan Doyle wrote the story in 1886, and it was published the following year. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes to Doctor Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it."