The Yellow Face [in, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes: Introduction by Iain Pears: Notes by Ed Glinert] (Penguin Classics).
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Published: 2004
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
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Published: 2021-04-23
Total Pages: 276
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo 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. And yet there was but one woman to him, and that woman was the late Irene Adler, of dubious and questionable memory.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Publisher: ePenguin
Published: 2001-07-05
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 9780140437713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection includes many of the famous cases - and great strokes of brilliance - that made the legendary Sherlock Holmes one of fiction's most popular creations. With his devoted amanuensis, Dr Watson, Holmes emerges from his smoke filled rooms in Baker Street to grapple with the forces of treachery, intrigue and evil in such cases as 'The Speckled Band', in which a terrified woman begs their help in solving the mystery surrounding her sister's death, or 'A Scandal in Bohemia', which portrays a European king blackmailed by his mistress. In 'Silver Blaze' the pair investigate the disappearance of a racehorse and the violent murder of its trainer, while in 'The Final Problem' Holmes at last comes face to face with his nemesis, the diabolical Professor Moriarty - 'the Napoleon of crime'.
Twentieth-century Crime Fiction
Author: Lee Horsley
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780199253265
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwentieth-Century Crime Fiction aims to enhance understanding of one of the most popular forms of genre fiction by examining a wide variety of the detective and crime fiction produced in Britain and America during the twentieth century. It will be of interest to anyone who enjoys reading crime fiction but is specifically designed with the needs of students in mind. It introduces different theoretical approaches to crime fiction (e.g., formalist, historicist, psychoanalytic, postcolonial, feminist) and will be a useful supplement to a range of crime fiction courses, whether they focus on historical contexts, ideological shifts, the emergence of sub-genres, or the application of critical theories. Forty-seven widely available stories and novels are chosen for detailed discussion. In seeking to illuminate the relationship between different phases of generic development Lee Horsley employs an overlapping historical framework, with sections doubling back chronologically in order to explore the extent to which successive transformations have their roots within the earlier phases of crime writing, as well as responding in complex ways to the preoccupations and anxieties of their own eras. The first part of the study considers the nature and evolution of the main sub-genres of crime fiction: the classic and hard-boiled strands of detective fiction, the non-investigative crime novel (centered on transgressors or victims), and the "mixed" form of the police procedural. The second half of the study examines the ways in which writers have used crime fiction as a vehicle for socio-political critique. These chapters consider the evolution of committed, oppositional strategies, tracing the development of politicized detective and crime fiction, from Depression-era protests against economic injustice to more recent decades which have seen writers launching protests against ecological crimes, rampant consumerism, Reaganomics, racism, and sexism.
The Vegetative Key to the British Flora
Author: John Poland
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Published: 2020-01-13
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780956014429
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing rigorous testing throughout Britain and Ireland over the last 10 years, this second edition is a much revised version with re-written keys, additional species, phenology and, of course, many new novel identification characters. A few new illustrations have been added where space allows. In addition, the nomenclature has been updated in line with modern taxonomy. Each key has been carefully reviewed and revamped so this version aims to be quicker and more comprehensive in detail than its predecessor, greatly improving on the original work. Additional floral and fruiting characters have been added for some of the more difficult species making it more handy for casual field use.
The Universal Sherlock Holmes
Author: Ronald Burt De Waal
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 348
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK101 Ways to Save the Earth
Author: David Bellamy
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9781845079246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTV conservationist David Bellamy brings you facts on how to live an ecologically-sound life and conserve the planet! New edition using recycled paper and a brown card cover.
William Empson
Author: John Haffenden
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Published: 2005
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ISBN-13: 9780199276592
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntertextuality and the Reading of Midrash
Author: Daniel Boyarin
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1994-08-22
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9780253114617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProceeding by means of intensive readings of passages from the early midrash on Exodus The Mekilta, Boyarin proposes a new theory of midrash that rests in part on an understanding of the heterogeneity of the biblical text and the constraining force of rabbinic ideology on the production of midrash. In a forceful combination of theory and reading, Boyarin raises profound questions concerning the interplay between history, ideology, and interpretation.
The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture
Author: David E. Fishman
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Published: 2005-11-07
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKActing as an important historical archive for the Jews of eastern Europe, The Rise of Modern Yiddish Culture examines the progress of Yiddish culture from its origins in Tsarist and inter-war Poland to its apex with the founding of the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1925.
