Sherlock Holmes Miniature Library

Author : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Canterbury Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684126339

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Sherlock Holmes Miniature Library by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

A compact and extensive collection of Sherlock Holmes stories that looks amazing on your bookshelf. Explore the world of Sherlock Holmes in this boxed set of miniature books that looks wonderful on your shelf. When arranged in order, the spines create a colorful montage of scenes from Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories. The set includes ten volumes of Sherlock Holmes mysteries as well as a journal in which readers can record the results of their own sleuthing efforts. Set includes... A Study in Scarlet The Sign of the Four The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes The Hound of the Baskervilles The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Valley of Fear His Last Bow

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN : HARVARD:32044019087527

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Tales of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Canterbury Classics
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1684126355

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Complete Shakespeare Miniature Library by William Shakespeare Pdf

A compact and gorgeous collection of the Bard’s complete works that looks amazing on your bookshelf. This twelve-volume boxed set contains the complete works of William Shakespeare (154 sonnets, 6 poems, and 37 plays) in a miniature format that looks wonderful on your shelf. When arranged in order, the spines create a visually stunning montage of scenes from the Bard’s plays. Each volume is small enough to be taken with you when you’re on the go, but still packs all the eloquence of Shakespeare’s words.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : BoD E-Short
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783734752261

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How Watson Learned the Trick by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

"How Watson Learned the Trick" is a Sherlock Holmes parody written by Arthur Conan Doyle in 1922. It concerns Doctor Watson attempting to demonstrate to Holmes how he has learned the latter's "superficial trick" of logical deduction by giving a summary of Holmes' current state of mind and plans for the day ahead, only for Holmes to then reveal that every single one of Watson's deductions is incorrect. Conan Doyle was one of several authors commissioned to provide books for the library of Queen Mary's Dolls' House; others included J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling and W. Somerset Maugham. Conan Doyle was provided with a book approximately 1.5" x 1.25" (3.75 cm x 3.15 cm), into which he wrote the 503-word story of "How Watson Learned the Trick" by hand, taking up 34 pages. The original manuscript is still part of the Dolls' House library.

Author : Metropolitan Toronto Central Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0887730035

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Sherlock Holmes is Alive and Well at the Metropolitan Toronto Library by Metropolitan Toronto Central Library Pdf

Author : Michael Kurland
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466826137

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Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years by Michael Kurland Pdf

An anthology of eleven original Sherlock Homes tales set during the missing years between the apparent death and later return of Sherlock Holmes. Includes the Edgar Award finalist "The Adventure of the Missing Detective" by Gary Lovisi. In 1891, Sherlock Holmes in a struggle with his arch-enemy, the Napoleon of Crime, Professor James Moriarty, plunged with him over the Reichenbach Falls to his inevitable death. All of England - indeed the entire world - mourned the irreplaceable loss of the world's greatest detective. And that's where things stood until 1894 when Holmes suddenly reappeared in London, revealing himself to his friend Dr. John Watson, and resumed his activities as a consulting detective. Holmes remained very quiet and mysterious on those missing three years, never really revealing precisely where he'd been and what he'd done in the 'hidden years." Now, in this anthology of original stories the truth about those thirty-five months is unveiled and Holmes' adventures described. While some stories place Holmes in such familiar locations as New York and San Francisco, others find him high in the Himalayas or above the Arctic Circle. With stories from such writers as Rhys Bowen, Peter Beagle, Carolyn Wheat, Michael Collins and many others, Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years is a must-have book for every fan who has every wondered about the untold adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : FilRougeViceversa
Page : 1539 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783985510566

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Arthur Conan Doyle Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet The Hound of the Baskervilles The Return of Sherlock Holmes The Sign of the Four "To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would have placed himself in a false position. He never spoke of the softer passions, save with a gibe and a sneer. They were admirable things for the observer—excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results. Grit in a sensitive instrument, or a crack in one of his own high-power lenses, would not be more disturbing than a strong emotion in a nature such as his."

Author : Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher : anboco
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736417915

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle Pdf

In general the stories in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes identify, and try to correct, social injustices. Holmes is portrayed as offering a new, fairer sense of justice. The stories were well received, and boosted the subscriptions figures of The Strand Magazine, prompting Doyle to be able to demand more money for his next set of stories. The first story, "A Scandal in Bohemia", includes the character of Irene Adler, who, despite being featured only within this one story by Doyle, is a prominent character in modern Sherlock Holmes adaptations, generally as a love interest for Holmes. Doyle included four of the twelve stories from this collection in his twelve favourite Sherlock Holmes stories, picking "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" as his overall favourite.

Author : Beatrix Potter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : OCLC:1150956439

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The Original Peter Rabbit Miniature Collection by Beatrix Potter Pdf

Author : Fougasse
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780763677633

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J. Smith by Fougasse Pdf

Marvel over this exact replica of a miniature book created for Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House by cartoonist Fougasse, in print for the very first time! Written in rhyming text and illustrated in full color, this is the charming tale of a fairy named Joe Smith, who is blown out of fairyland into the streets of 1920s London.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781452170046

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A Note of Explanation by Vita Sackville-West Pdf

“An extraordinary story . . . of a fashionable creature who flits in and out of fairy tales and historical epochs . . Exquisite.” —The Wall Street Journal A Note of Explanation is a previously unknown work by iconic writer Vita Sackville-West. Written in 1922, it was recently rediscovered as a miniature book in Queen Mary’s dollhouse in Windsor Castle. Witty and stylish, the story recounts the antics of a time-traveling sprite who inhabits the dollhouse. This illustrated e-book edition presents the story for the first time since 1924. Lovers of literature and history will rejoice in this irresistible one-of-a-kind e-book.

Author : Ronald Burt De Waal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:30000042761480

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The Universal Sherlock Holmes by Ronald Burt De Waal Pdf

Author : Simon Garfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501199608

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In Miniature by Simon Garfield Pdf

Bestselling, award-winning writer Simon Garfield returns with an enthralling investigation of humans’ peculiar fascination with small things—and what small things tell us about our larger world. “[Simon Garfield is] an exuberant truffle-hound of the recondite and delightful factoid.” —Sunday Times (London) Simon Garfield writes books that shine a light on aspects of the everyday world in order to reveal the charms and eccentricities hiding in plain sight around us. After beguiling fans with books about everything from typography to time, from historic maps to the color mauve, he’s found his most delightful topic yet: miniatures. Tiny Eiffel Towers. Platoons of brave toy soldiers. A doll’s house created for a Queen. Diminutive crime scenes crafted to catch a killer. Model villages and miniscule railways. These are just a few of the objects you will discover in the pages of In Miniature. Bringing together history, psychology, art, and obsession, Garfield explores what fuels the strong appeal of miniature objects among collectors, modelers, and fans. The toys we enjoy as children invest us with a rare power at a young age, conferring on us a taste of adult-sized authority. For some, the desire to play with small things becomes a desire to make small things. We live in a vast and uncertain world, and controlling just a tiny, scaled-down part of it restores our sense of order and worth. As it explores flea circuses, microscopic food, ancient tombs, and the Vegas Strip, In Miniature changes the way we perceive our surroundings, encouraging all of us to find greatness in the smallest of things.

Author : Andrew Lane
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781429961714

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Rebel Fire by Andrew Lane Pdf

Fourteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes knows that Amyus Crowe, his mysterious American tutor, has some dark secrets. But he didn't expect to find John Wilkes Booth, the notorious assassin, apparently alive and well in England—and Crowe somehow mixed up in it. When no one will tell you the truth, sometimes you have to risk all to discover it for yourself. And so begins an adventure that will take Sherlock across the Atlantic, to the center of a deadly web—where a friend is in peril and a defeated army threatens to rise again. Andrew Lane's exciting second case for the teenage Sherlock leads the young detective to America, straight into the heart of a shocking conspiracy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : The Monacelli Press, LLC
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015059550601

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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Anonim Pdf

The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death offers readers an extraordinary glimpse into the mind of a master criminal investigator. Frances Glessner Lee, a wealthy grandmother, founded the Department of Legal Medicine at Harvard in 1936 and was later appointed captain in the New Hampshire police. In the 1940s and 1950s she built dollhouse crime scenes based on real cases in order to train detectives to assess visual evidence. Still used in forensic training today, the eighteen Nutshell dioramas, on a scale of 1:12, display an astounding level of detail: pencils write, window shades move, whistles blow, and clues to the crimes are revealed to those who study the scenes carefully. Corinne May Botz's lush color photographs lure viewers into every crevice of Frances Lee's models and breathe life into these deadly miniatures, which present the dark side of domestic life, unveiling tales of prostitution, alcoholism, and adultery. The accompanying line drawings, specially prepared for this volume, highlight the noteworthy forensic evidence in each case. Botz's introductory essay, which draws on archival research and interviews with Lee's family and police colleagues, presents a captivating portrait of Lee.