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Indlæser... The Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Complete and Unabridgedaf Arthur Conan Doyle
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. My copy was a present from my favorite uncle at age 15. I am 42 now. This is one of the books that just make me go wow and want to read anything in site. Holmes and Watson are one of the best partnerships in literature. In these complete original stories much more of a team than in other media. Yes the mysteries are also logical and fun. Doyle's Sherlock Holmes may not be the greatest mysteries ever, but they're certainly among the best know and the most fun. As mysteries, they hold up well a hundred years later - people still enjoy being fooled a little bit. As late Victorian / Edwardian writing, they're superb in offering us a glimpse into the world of England's respectable classes caught with the hands in the cookie jar, or biscuit tin? ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Table of Contents. Arthur Conan Doyle Biography. Bibliography by year. The Complete Collection of Sherlock Holmes. A Study in Scarlet. The Sign of Four. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. The Hound of the Baskervilles. The Return of Sherlock Holmes. The Valley of Fear. His Last Bow. The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes. The Napoleonic Tales. The Great Shadow. The Crime of The Brigadier. The "Slapping Sal". The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard. Uncle Bernac. The Adventures of Gerard. The Professor Challenger Works. The Lost World. The Poison Belt. The Land of Mist. The Disintegration Machine. When the World Screamed. Other Novels. Beyond the City. A Desert Drama: Being the Tragedy of the Korosko. The Doings of Raffles Haw. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus. The Firm of Girdlestone. Micah Clarke. The Mystery of Cloomber. The Parasite. The Refugees. Rodney Stone. Sir Nigel. The Stark Munro Letters. The White Company. Other Short Stories and Collections. The Cabman''s Story. Captain of The Polestar And Other Tales. Danger! And Other Stories. The Green Flag And Other Stories of War And Sport. The Last Galley. Tales and Impressions. My Friend the Murderer. The Mystery of Sasassa Valley. Round the Red Lamp. Tales of Terror. Tales of Mystery. Poetry. Songs of Action (28 Songs). Songs of the Road (32 Songs). Spiritualist Works. The New Revelation, or What Is Spiritualism. The Vital Message. Works on Current Affairs. The Great Boer War. A Visit to Three Fronts. Literary Criticism. Through the Magic Door. No library descriptions found. |
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Professor Challenger, brilliant but egotistical and eccentric and constantly at odds with the scientific establishment, leads a rather ramshackle team on a great adventure. In the depths of the Amazonian jungle they come to a giant plateau cut off from the rest of the world for millions of years. They find prehistoric monsters, primitive tribes, trials and tribulations and many adventures before making their escape. They return in triumph to civilisation (or, London in this case) before a sting in the tail is revealed.
The writing is, of course, of its time, but reveals a writer operating at a high level of skill. The pacing, narrative and characters are all drawn efficiently and quickly with very little baggage (at least, by the standards of the times). The book certainly draws the reader in and makes for page-turning excitement. There is, perhaps, a little taint of a buy-the-numbers, roll-another-one-off-the-line, formulaic structure, but the adventure and derring-do make up for that. ( )