Sir Arthur Livres

This choice compilation features eight of Sherlock Holmes' finest adventures, including "The Final Problem," Conan Doyle's unsuccessful attempt to retire his hero permanently. Also included are such perennial favorites as "A Scandal in Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," "The Adventure of the Speckled Band," "The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb," "The Musgrave Ritual," "The Adventure of the Empty House," and "The Adventure of the Dancing Men."This Dover edition is specially designed for those who need or prefer large print and meets the standards of the National Association for the Visually Handicapped.A scandal in Bohemia --The red-headed league --The adventure of the speckled band --The adventure of the engineer's thumb --The final problem --The Musgrave ritual --The adventure of the dancing men --The adventure of the empty house.

Writing is not like chemical engineering. The figures of speech should not be learned the same way as the periodic table of elements. This is because figures of speech are not about hypothetical structures in things, but about real potentialities within language and within ourselves. The "figurings" of speech reveal the apparently limitless plasticity of language itself. We are inescapably confronted with the intoxicating possibility that we can make language do for us almost anything we want. Or at least a Shakespeare can. The figures of speech help to see how he does it, and how we might. Therefore, in the chapters presented in this volume, the quotations from Shakespeare, the Bible, and other sources are not presented to exemplify the definitions. Rather, the definitions are presented to lead to the quotations. And the quotations are there to show us how to do with language what we have not done before. They are there for imitation.

Des cris lugubres résonnent sur la lande... Et voici que la légende prend corps. Un chien énorme, créature fantomatique et infernale, serait à l'origine de la mort de sir Charles Baskerville. Maudit soit Hugo, l'ancêtre impie et athée, qui provoqua, en son temps, les forces du mal ! Mais Sherlock Holmes ne peut croire à de telles sornettes. Aussi, lorsqu'il dépêche le fidèle Watson auprès de sir Henry, l'héritier nouvellement débarqué d'Amérique, il ne doute pas de mettre rapidement fin à ces spéculations. Pourtant, la mort a frappé plusieurs fois sur la lande. Et le manoir est le théâtre de phénomènes bien étranges... Se peut-il que la malédiction des Baskerville pèse encore ?