The Hound of the Baskervilles: Usborne Classics Retold

The Hound of the Baskervilles: Usborne Classics Retold

Author: Henry Brook

Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd

Published: 2013-09-01

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 1409569152

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The world's most famous detective is brought to life for a new generation of readers in this gripping retelling of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead in peculiar circumstances, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are called in to investigate. Could the death have something to do with the monstrous hound said to haunt the Baskerville family? And will Holmes and Watson solve the mystery before another innocent man is claimed by the terrible Baskerville curse?


Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction since 1900

Author: C. Bloom

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 2002-07-09

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 9780333687420

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This guide and reference work of all of the bestselling books, authors and genres since the beginning of the 20th century, provides an insight into over 100 years of publishing and reading as well as taking us on a journey into the heart of the British imagination.


102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum

102 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum

Author: Cathy Duffy

Publisher: Australian Geographic

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780929320199

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102 Top Picks makes it easy for home educators to select the right curriculum for each family situation and each child's learning style. Widely-recognized curriculum expert Cathy Duffy walks you through the curriculum selection process. This is an updated and extensively revised edition of 101 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum.


More Parts

More Parts

Author: Tedd Arnold

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2001-09-01

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 0735230544

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Give me a hand . . . hold your tongue . . . scream your lungs out . . . what's a kid to do if he wants to keep all his body parts in place? Well, one thing is for sure, he'll have to be creative. Like, if you want to keep your heart from breaking, just make sure it's well padded and protected by tying a pillow around your chest. Want to keep your hands attached? Simple-stick them on with gloves and lots of glue. Just be careful not to laugh your head off!


The Adventure of the Priory School

The Adventure of the Priory School

Author: Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof

Published: 2020-09-28

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 8726586444

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The powerful Duke of Holdernesse’s son is missing. The boy was last seen in the Priory School but shortly after he received a letter from his father, he was nowhere to be seen. The main suspect was the German master because he went missing the same day as the boy. The Priory School’s director reached out to Watson and Holmes who followed after the boy’s steps. Will they solve the case and find the boy? Did the boy went somewhere by himself or someone kidnapped him? Find the answers in "The Adventure of the Priory School" which is a part of "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.


Cult Fiction

Cult Fiction

Author: C. Bloom

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1996-10-04

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 0230390129

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Here is an exploration of pulp literature and pulp mentalities: an investigation into the nature and theory of the contemporary mind in art and in life. Here too, the violent, the sensational and the erotic signify different facets of the modern experience played out in the gaudy pages of kitsch literature. Clive Bloom offers the reader a chance to investigate the underworld of literary production and from it find a new set of co-ordinates for questions regarding publishing and reading practices in America and Britain, ideas of genre, problems related to commercial production, concerns regarding high and low culture, the canon and censorship, as well as a discussion of the rhetoric of current critical debate. Concentrating on remembered authors as well as many long disregarded or forgotten, Cult Fiction provides a theory of kitsch art that radically alters our perceptions of literature and literary values whilst providing a panorama of an almost forgotten history: the history of pulp.


Shakespeare Stories

Shakespeare Stories

Author: Leon Garfield

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780395861400

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By skillfully weaving his own prose with Shakespeare's language, Leon Garfield has refashioned twelve of the Elizabethan playwright's most memorable dramas into stories, capturing all the richness of the characters, plot, mood, and setting. This format will delight both those who know the great dramatist's works and those who are new to them. Michael Foreman's dramatic color illustrations and varied black-and-white line drawings are the perfect complement to this celebration of Shakespeare's genius.