Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, mais conhecido pelas histórias de Sherlock Holmes, era um exímio escritor de terror e de suspense psicológico. Esta coletânea reúne quatro contos nos quais o mistério e o maca
Obras completas en cuatro tomos de lujo. Incluye estudios preliminares por especialistas en el tema. Sherlock Holmes es el protagonista de una serie de 4 novelas y 56 relatos de ficción. Es el prototipo de investigador cerebral por excelencia e influyo en gran medida en la ficcion detectivesca posterior a su aparicion.
You said that you wanted danger, didn't you?' says McArdle, the editor of theDaily Gazette . And he sends his young reporter, Malone, on a strange journey into South America with the famous Professor Challenger. Challenger believes he can find a lost world full of dinosaurs in the middle of the Amazon forest. But this world is dangerous to reach, and, once the Professor and his small group of explorers arrive, things get even more dangerous for them. Will they return alive?
As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an intriguing invitation to meet her unknown benefactor and urges Holmes and Watson to accompany her. And in the ensuing investigation - which involves a wronged woman, a stolen hoard of Indian treasure, a wooden-legged ruffian, a helpful dog and a love affair - even the jaded Holmes is moved to exclaim, 'Isn't it gorgeous
This series of readers features adaptations of over 60 classic and popular literary works. Attractive and helpful illustrations clarify vocabulary and reinforce understanding of the stories, while questions and activities at the end of each book test understanding. Words essential to the story are explained within the text, illustrated, and then reused for maximum reinforcement. The books are graded at five vocabulary levels, ranging from 1,400 words (Intermediate) to 5,000 words (Advanced). Young adults from the Intermediate level upwards will enjoy reading the lively stories, and they can progress from level to level as their reading skills develop.
Cuando un hombre alto, delgado y algo cargado de hombros que obedece al nombre de James Mortimer entra en el famoso apartamento del 221b de Baker Street con un manuscrito antiguo donde se da cuenta maldicion de una antigua familia, se inicia una de las mas emocionantes aventuras de Sherlock Holmes y de su inseparable Dr. Watson. Un enigmatico crimen relacionado con un perro diabolico y sobrenatural, instrumento de la maldicion que pesa sobre los Baskerville, los llevara a una mansion situada en los inhospitos y desolados paramos de la region de Dartmoor, un escenario idoneo para esta novela que mezcla el misterio con el cuento de terror y en el que deberan resolver un caso rodeado de extraordinarias circunstancias.Traduccion de Jose Luis Lopez Muñoz
Sherlock Holmes, detective reúne cinco relatos protagonizados polo agudo detective de Baker Street e o seu amigo, o doutor Watson. Neles, Conan Doyle condensa o xénero detectivesco en estado puro, presentando unha incognita en termos sempre interesantes e mantendo a tension narrativa mediante unha atinada dose de accion e sorpresa, salferida arreo dun ironico e requintado humor britanico.
En estos cuentos te vas a encontrar con un niño que desaparece de un colegio sin dejar rastro, una mujer que muere en la casa de su tío la víspera de su casamiento, un señor al que le pagan un salario solamente por tener el pelo rojo, un hombre que antes de morir dice haber visto la melena de un león, y un profesos que advierte que alguien espió un examen a punto de ser tomado.
First published in a serial form in The Strand magazine July 1925-May 1928, "The Land of Mist" is the third and last novel in the Professor Challenger series, and is a marked departure from the previous tales. The novel picks up some of the characters who discovered an island full of prehistoric creatures in Conan Doyles "The Lost World", and sets them exploring the even stranger world of ghosts and spirits.For the later decades of his life, Conan Doyle was an enthusiastic spiritualist, and a great propagandist for the cause. He had the sense to keep Sherlock Holmes well away from his supernatural interests, but in this book Professor Challenger and company face all sorts of ethereal wonders. Challenger becomes a Spiritualist, and the novel strongly promotes the concept of Spiritualism.
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