Patrick Nobes Ordre des livres

The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog. 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.

Dartmoor. A wild, wet place in the south-west of England. A place where it is easy to get lost, and to fall into the soft green earth which can pull the strongest man down to his death. A man is running for his life. Behind him comes an enormous dog - a dog from his worst dreams, a dog from hell. Between him and a terrible death stands only one person - the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes.

" Longues et nombreuses furent les conversations entre Lord Byron et Shelley, conversations que j'écoutais avec ferveur, mais sans presque jamais y prendre part. Au cours de l'une d'entre elles, il fut question de diverses doctrines philosophiques et parmi celles-ci, de la nature du principe de vie, de la possibilité qu'il soit un jour découvert et divulgué. (...) On disait qu'il (le Dr Darwin) avait conservé un morceau de vermicelle dans un bocal en verre et qu'un beau jour, par quelque moyen extraordinaire, ce vermicelle s'était mis de lui-même en mouvement. Ce n'était pas ainsi, en tout cas, que la vie se transmettrait. Peut-être parviendrait-on un jour à ranimer un cadavre. Le galvanisme portait à y croire. Peut-être serait-il possible de fabriquer les différentes parties d'un être, de les assembler et de leur insuffler la chaleur vitale. "

It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionallyfall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . . In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now.