«- Qu'est-ce qu'il a en lui, papa ? demandai-je. - Un peu de blanc, un peu de rouge et un peu de noir. - Indien, blanc et nègre ? - Oui. - Alors qu'est-ce que je suis ? - Quand tu seras grand, on dira de toi que tu es un homme de couleur, répondit-elle. Ensuite, se tournant vers moi avec un sourire moqueur, elle demanda : - Vous n'y voyez pas d'inconvénient, Monsieur Wright ?»
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
Part of the High Impact series this classic text is retold in an accessible style for those with a reading age of six to seven years. Can Sherlock Holmes solve the mystery of the death of Helen's sister in time to save Helen's own life?
"The Bottle Imp" is an 1891 short story by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson usually found in the short story collection "Island Nights' Entertainments." It was first published in the "New York Herald" (February-March 1891) and "Black and White" London (March-April 1891). In it, the protagonist buys a bottle with an imp inside that grants wishes. However, the bottle is cursed; if the holder dies bearing it, his or her soul is forfeit to hell.
Le Troisième homme, un " suspense " parfait dans lequel Graham Greene, écrivain lu dans le monde entier, met en scène un odieux trafiquant qui fait le mal en toute inconscience. Le troisième homme c'est aussi un film qui restera sans doute un des sommets de l'art du cinéma. Première désillusion, c'est le choc et la terreur éprouvés par un enfant quand, pour la première fois, il se trouve confronté, au cours d'une affaire tragique, au monde des adultes. Il découvre alors l'amour, la peur, la lâcheté.
Humour: The well-known story about an American family who moves into an old English castle. We follow the trag-comic complications between a poor ghost and the modern American family.
