sir arthur conan doyle quotes about books

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 06:20

Ngày tải lên: 29/08/2013, 17:10

... you see them, of course, in the inverse order to the way THE RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAY DOYLE The Adventure of the Six Napoleons (3) Holmes spent the evening in rummaging ... Sandeford, of Reading, I suppose?" said he. "Yes, sir, I fear that I am a little late, but the trains were awkward. You wrote to me about a bust that is in my possession." "Exactly." ... trousers, presented himself. "Mr. Josiah Brown, I suppose?" said Holmes. "Yes, sir; and you, no doubt, are Mr. Sherlock Holmes? I had the note which you sent by the express messenger,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... messengers." "He wished to return with me." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (2) I gave Holmes's remarks as a consecutive whole and will not attempt to ... Watson. That would be obviously impossible. Did he ask what ailed me?" "I told him about the Chinese in the East End." "Exactly! Well, Watson, you have done all that a ... "Have you come from Holmes?" he asked. "I have just left him." "What about Holmes? How is he?" "He is desperately ill. That is why I have come." The...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... at Simpson's would not be out of place." THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (3) From the hiding-place into which I had been so swiftly hustled I heard the ... swear I will. Only cure me, and I'll forget it." "Forget what?" "Well, about Victor Savage's death. You as good as admitted just now that you had done it. I'll ... matters nothing to me that you should know how my nephew died. It's not him we are talking about. It's you." "Yes, yes." "The fellow who came for me I've forgotten...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... on the morning of the fourteenth, a gentleman named THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY (cont) Sherlock Holmes sat silent for a few minutes with his ... o'clock?" "Yes, sir. I am afraid that I am a little late, but I am not quite my own master, you know. I am sorry that Miss Sutherland has troubled you about this little matter, for ... them?" "What! where?" shouted Mr. Windibank, turning white to his lips and glancing about him like a rat in a trap. "Oh, it won't do really it won't," said Holmes...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... "To ruin me." "But how?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia I. To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom ... society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, ... with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers. His rooms...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 02:15

... and individual acts of heroism. As Sir Nigel Loring, in Doyle s The White Company and the post-Boer- War Sir Nigel, was always seeking a worthy opponent, so Doyle continu- ously constructed the ... famine. () This was a charge to which Arthur Conan Doyle would respond quite strongly when Stead reiterated it in Methods of Barbarism. In his response, Doyle conflated the charge of rape with ... radical journalist W. T. Stead, and a pro-war propa- gandist, popular fiction writer Arthur Conan Doyle. Stead and Doyle use the notion of chivalry as a key trope for the discussion of the ethics of...

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2013, 08:20

... you." "But what is it you wish?" THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Scandal in Bohemia II. At three o'clock precisely I was at Baker Street, ... twopence, a glass of half and half, two fills of shag tobacco, and as much information as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighborhood in whom I ... attempts of the sort have already been made. We may take it, then, that she does not carry it about with her." "Where, then?" "Her banker or her lawyer. There is that...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15

... Majesty's business to a more successful conclusion." "On the contrary, my dear sir, " cried the King; "nothing could be more successful. I know that her word is inviolate. ... and rushed into the drawing- room, followed by the King and myself. The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly...

Ngày tải lên: 08/11/2013, 02:15