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Sir Nigel

Sir Nigel

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

Sir Nigel is a historical novel set during the Hundred Years' War, by the British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1906, it describes the early life of that book's hero Sir Nigel Loring in the service of King Edward III at the start of the Hundred Years' War.

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The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago

The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

A book of historical fiction representing Conan Doyle's ability to make the long-gone past come alive.

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Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Adventure of Wisteria Lodge

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

A fantastic night ends for Mr. Scott Eccles when he wakes to find his host is dead. He brings Inspector Baynes, Sherlock Holmes, and John Watson to look into the case. The inspector and Holmes have different ideas of how to proceed. The race is on to see who will solve the murder of Wisteria Lodge first.

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The Poison Belt

The Poison Belt

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Альтернативная история

Three years after the events that took place in The Lost World, Professor Challenger urgently summons his fellow to a meeting. Oddly, he requires each to bring an oxygen cylinder with him. What he soon informs them is that from astronomical data and just received telegraphs of strange accidents on the other side of the world, he has deduced that the Earth is starting to move through a region of space containing something poisonous to humankind.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate?

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The Parasite

The Parasite

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классическая проза

The Parasite was an 1894 novelette about Austin Gilroy who studied physiology and knows a professor who studies the occult. The young man is introduced to a middle-aged woman known as Miss Penclosa, who has a crippled leg and psychic powers. Gilroy begins to visit this psychic and look at the physical part of her powers. Miss Penclosa falls in love with the unfortunate Gilroy. When she uses her powers on him, Gilroy is angered and rejects her. She in turn begins to play tricks on Gilroy. The cruel tricks end with him in his fiance Agatha's room carrying a small bottle of poison. What will he find when he rushes back to Miss Penclosa's house?

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The Refugees

The Refugees

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

The Refugees is a historical novel, centring on the fate of the Huguenots during the reign of Louis XIV and the revoking of the Edict of Nantes.

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The Lost World

The Lost World

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

Irish athletic reporter Malone narrates tale of bold squat quarrelsome Professor Challenger seeking remote Amazonian plateau where “the ordinary laws of Nature are suspended” with prehistoric creatures and ape-men. Other armed British whites are spare skeptic Professor Summerlee, and ginger dead-shot Lord John, supported by colored bearers.

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The Last Galley. Impressions And Tales

The Last Galley. Impressions And Tales

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

This volume collects a wide array of the author's short works of fiction, spanning virtually every literary genre. Detective stories are featured, but genres such as historical fiction, romance, and even nautical adventure are represented, as well. The Last Galley is an engrossing grab-bag of tales from the pen of one of the greatest nineteenth-century writers.

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The New Revelation

The New Revelation

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

"The New Revelation" is a firsthand account of investigation into the world of spiritualism. The treatise deals not only with the issue of physical versus metaphysical, but also considers the problem of death (and afterlife) and the question of communication with the spirit world. Conan Doyle's captivating prose and pragmatic, yet human, voice makes for an enlightening exploration of some eternally relevant questions-and possible answers.

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The Mystery of Cloomber

The Mystery of Cloomber

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классическая проза

This novel is narrated by John Fothergill West, who tries to discover why the tenant of Cloomber Hall, General Heatherstone, is nervous to the point of being paranoid. Why are his fears becoming stronger every year at the fifth of October? And why doesn't he let his children leave home? This is a great mystery novel with a sharp twist at the end.

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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes are overshadowed by the event with which they close – the meeting of the great detective and Moriarty, the Napoleon of Crime. Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a literary figure.

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Through the Magic Door

Through the Magic Door

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

"Through the Magic Door" is an essay by Arthur Conan Doyle: his subject is the charisma and charm of books. Doyle invites readers to enjoy the greatest minds of all times through what they have left behind and argues that, when we read, the selfishness and hopelessness of the world can be left behind.

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The Tragedy of The Korosko

The Tragedy of The Korosko

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

A group of European and American tourists is enjoying its trip in Egypt in the year 1895. They are sailing up the River Nile in a "a turtle-bottomed, round-bowed stern-wheeler", the Korosko. They intend to travel to Abousir at the southern frontier of Egypt, after which the Dervish country starts. They are attacked and abducted by a marauding band of Dervish warriors. The terrorists will either kill them or forcibly convert them to Islam. This "desert drama" is high adventure at its pulpy best, and still surprisingly relevant today.

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The Valley of Fear

The Valley of Fear

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

"The Valley of Fear" is the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is loosely based on the real-life exploits of the Molly Maguires and Pinkerton agent James McParland.

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The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

In this installment in the continuation of the classic collection of Sherlock Holmes stories, England's top-notch sleuth is on the go again, with lavish mysteries demanding the master's brilliant powers of deduction.

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The White Company

The White Company

Arthur Conan Doyle

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This spirited account of the exploits of a crew of Saxon archers during the Hundred Years War features cameo appearances by historical figures such as Edward III and the Black Prince. Flavorful and realistic in its depictions of medieval life, the novel combines the excitement of a rugged adventure with the romance of chivalry.

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A Study in Scarlet

A Study in Scarlet

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

In the debut of literature's most famous sleuth, a dead man is discovered in a bloodstained room in Brixton. The only clues are a wedding ring, a gold watch, a pocket edition of Boccaccio's Decameron, and a word scrawled in blood on the wall. With this investigation begins the partnership of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

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Rodney Stone

Rodney Stone

Arthur Conan Doyle

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As well as penning some of the most popular detective fiction, Conan Doyle also wrote thrilling adventure stories. 'Rodney Stone' is a combination of both. Nelson, Beau Brummell, Fox and King George III himself appear in a tale at the heart of which is, as one character says, "a pretty conspiracy – a criminal, an actress and a prize-fighter, all playing their parts".

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Round The Red Lamp

Round The Red Lamp

Arthur Conan Doyle

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"Round the Red Lamp" features realistic stories and episodes of medical life, sketches of old-fashioned doctors, medical students and their pranks.

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Tales of Terror and Mystery

Tales of Terror and Mystery

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Рассказ

Tales of Terror and Mystery is a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle stories including:

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The Sign of the Four

The Sign of the Four

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

Sherlock Holmes is sitting in a cocaine-induced haze until the arrival of a distressed and beautiful young lady forces the great detective into action. Each year following the strange disappearance of her father, Miss Morstan has received a present of a rare and lustrous pearl. Now, on the day she is summoned to meet her anonymous benefactor, she consults Holmes and Watson.

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The Vital Message

The Vital Message

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Зарубежная классическая проза

In "The New Revelation" the first dawn of the coming change has been described. In "The Vital Message" the sun has risen higher, and one sees more clearly and broadly what our new relations with the Unseen may be.

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His Last Bow

His Last Bow

Arthur Conan Doyle

Жанр в блоке книги Классический детектив

"His Last Bow" is a collection of seven Sherlock Holmes stories (eight in American editions) by Arthur Conan Doyle, as well as the title of one of the stories in that collection. Adventures involving an illustrious client and a Sussex vampire; the problems of Thor Bridge and of the Lions Mane; puzzles concerning a creeping man and the three-gabled house; disappearances of secret plans and a lady of noble standing; all test the courage of Dr Watson and the intellect of the greatest detective of them all, Mr Sherlock Homes.

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