<p>"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as The Return of Sherlock Holmes.</p> <p>Public pressure forced Conan Doyle to bring the sleuth back to life, and explain his apparently miraculous survival of a deadly struggle with Professor Moriarty. This is the first Holmes story set after his supposed death at the Reichenbach Falls, as recounted in "The Final Problem". The Hound of the Baskervilles had seen the return of a pre-Reichenbach Falls Sherlock Holmes, which only served to whet readers' appetites.</p> <p>Doyle ranked "The Adventure of the Empty House" sixth in his list of his twelve favorite Holmes stories.</p> <p>The story takes place in 1894, three years after the death of Sherlock Holmes. On the night of March 30, an apparently unsolvable locked-room murder takes place in London: the Park Lane Mystery, the killing of the Honourable Ronald Adair, son of the Earl of Maynooth, a colonial governor in Australia. He was in his sitting room, working on accounts of some kind, as indicated by the papers and money found by police. Adair liked playing whist and regularly did so at several clubs, but never for great sums of money. It does, however, come out that he won as much as £420 in partnership with Colonel Sebastian Moran. The motive does not appear to be robbery as nothing has been stolen, and it seems that Adair had not an enemy in the world. It seems odd that Ronald's door was locked from the inside. The only other way out was the open window, and there was a 20-foot (about 6 m) drop below it onto a flower bed, which now shows no sign of being disturbed. Adair was killed with a soft-nosed revolver bullet to the head. No one in the area at the time heard a shot...</p> <p>Famous works of the author Arthur Conan Doyle: 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, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, Stories of Sherlock Holmes, The Lost World.</p>
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( newly updated TOC ) The Harvard Universal Classics, originally known as Dr. Eliot's Five Foot Shelf, is a 51-volume anthology of classic works from world literature, compiled and edited by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot and first published in 1909. Eliot had stated in speeches that the elements of a liberal education could be obtained by spending 15 minutes a day reading from a collection of books that could fit on a five-foot shelf. (Originally he had said a three-foot shelf.) The publisher P. F. Collier and Son saw an opportunity and challenged Eliot to make good on this statement by selecting an appropriate collection of works, and the Harvard Classics was the result. Eliot worked for one year with William A. Neilson, a professor of English; Eliot determined the works to be included and Neilson selected the specific editions and wrote introductory notes. Each volume had 400–450 pages, and the included texts are "so far as possible, entire works or complete segments of the world's written legacies." The collection was widely advertised by Collier and Son, in Collier's and elsewhere, with great success. Eight years later Eliot added a further 20 volumes as a sub-collection titled 'The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction', offering some of the greatest novels and short stories of world literature. The exhaustive anthology of the 'The Harvard Classics' comprises every major literary figure, philosopher, religion, folklore and historical subject up to the twentieth century. The Harvard Classics: . 1: Franklin, Woolman & Penn 2: Plato, Epictetus & Marcus Aurelius 3: Bacon, Milton, Browne 4: John Milton 5: R. W. Emerson 6: Robert Burns 7: St Augustine & Thomas á Kempis 8: Nine Greek Dramas 9: Cicero and Pliny 10: The Wealth of Nations 11: The Origin of Species 12: Plutarchs 13: Æneid 14: Don Quixote 15: Bunyan & Walton 16: 1001 Nights 17: Folklore & Fable 18: Modern English Drama 19: Goethe & Marlowe 20: The Divine Comedy 21: I Promessi Sposi 22: The Odyssey 23: Two Years Before the Mast 24: Edmund Burke 25: J. S. Mill & T. Carlyle 26: Continental Drama 27 & 28: English & American Essays 29: The Voyage of the Beagle 30: Scientific Papers 31: The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini 32: Literary and Philosophical Essays 33: Voyages & Travels 34: French & English Philosophers 35: Chronicle and Romance 36: Machiavelli, Roper, More, Luther 37: Locke, Berkeley, Hume 38: Harvey, Jenner, Lister, Pasteur 39: Prologues 40–42: English Poetry 43: American Historical Documents 44 & 45: Sacred Writings 46 & 47: Elizabethan Drama 48: Blaise Pascal 49: Saga 50: Reader's Guide 51: Lectures The Shelf of Fiction: 1 & 2: The History of Tom Jones 3: A Sentimental Journey & Pride and Prejudice 4: Guy Mannering 5 & 6: Vanity Fair 7 & 8: David Copperfield 9: The Mill on the Floss 10: Irving, Poe, Harte, Twain, Hale 11: The Portrait of a Lady 12: Notre Dame de Paris 13: Balzac, Sand, de Musset, Daudet, de Maupassant 14 & 15: Goethe, Keller, St...
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The journalist and writer Don Marquis obtained recognition in life, one of the works of this collection (The Old Soak) being transformed into a play and later, a movie still in the silent movie era. The seven short stories selected here bring all the humor, satire and wit of this writer. Enjoy your reading!The Old SoakThe Revolt of the OysterThe Professor's AwakeningThe Saddest ManBehind the CurtainKaleToo American
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Ambrose Bierce was born on June 24, 1842 in Meigs county, Ohio. He worked as a printer's apprentice and enlisted to fight in the Civil War. After the war he worked as an editor, journalist, and short story writer; capturing his war experiences in vivid detail. Although his caustic and satirical style granted him notoriety as a journalist, nowadays he is remembered for his incursions into the genre of terror, influencing authors of the stature of H.P. Lovecraft, and is considered one of the most significant of the nineteenth century, together with others such as Edgar Allan Poe and Guy de Maupassant. Profoundly misanthropic, expressed in his writings his distrust of the human race, distrust expressed with a critical attitude that earned him the nickname of Bitter Bierce .This selection specially chosen by the literary critic August Nemo, contains the following stories:An Occurrence at Owl Creek BridgeOne Summer NightThe Death Of Halpin FrayserThe Moonlit RoadA Psychological ShipwreckThe StrangerThe Middle Toe of the Right Foot
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<b>Deux adolescents soldats, Christian et Baudouin, tentent de survivre dans une Europe en proie au chaos.</b> <br> <br>Christian et Baudouin ont quatorze ans. Mais ils ne vont pas à l’école. Ils ne jouent pas au foot avec leurs copains. Ils n’ont jamais vu de film au cinéma, jamais acheté un jeu vidéo. Dans une Europe en proie au chaos où les pays n’existent plus, les bandes militarisées dopées aux drogues high-tech, les milices des corporations et les débris d’armées sans nation enrôlent les enfants de gré ou de force. <br>Christian et Baudouin sont soldats. Deux adolescents qui vont devoir se battre, une fois de plus... mais aussi se demander quelle cause ils veulent servir. <br>Car dans le sud de la France, un État de loi, d’équité et de liberté tente de renaître dans les ruines. À Toulon, on essaie de démobiliser et de réinsérer les enfants combattants. <br>Mais est-ce possible, quand une conflagration générale est sur le point d’embraser toute la région ? <br> <br> <b>Entre fantastique et science-fiction, plongez-vous au coeur d'un roman à l'intrigue prenante dans lequel les enfants combattants sont appelés à défendre leur pays. A découvrir dès 16 ans !</b> <br> <br>EXTRAIT <br> <br>L'orée du bois approchait rapidement. Le bruit des combats, lui, ne s'éloignait pas d'un iota. Comme si la distance ne pouvait pas atténuer le fracas des clameurs et des grenades – et les soudains silences qui aspiraient tout dans un vide où plus rien ne palpitait, pas même un bruissement de branches ou une fauvette indifférente, avant de se dilater comme une explosion dans un nouveau chaos. <br>Le groupe de combat courait. La lisière était presque à portée. <br>Derrière eux, sur la ligne principale des combats, les obus s'espaçaient. Baudouin savait ce que ça signifiait : leurs munitions lourdes s'épuisaient avant que les compagnies n'aient réussi leur redéploiement. Les derniers groupes en déplacement étaient de plus en plus vulnérables. Pas eux quatre, bien sûr. C'était pour eux que la Section de Flanc faisait diversion, au risque de se faire étriller. Eux quatre, ils n'étaient censés tomber sur personne. <br> <br>À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR <br> <br>Tour à tour apprenti lapidaire, enfant de troupe et bénévole auprès d'adolescents en difficulté, <b>Jean Bury</b> travaille comme traducteur dans une micro-entreprise proche de la SCOP. Il a publié une quinzaine de nouvelles et six romans dont <i>Triton sur le rivage de sable"</i>(Prix Alain Le Bussy 2017), <i>Terre Zéro</i> (Otherlands, 2016), <i>Faon (</i>Mots & Légendes, 2016 <i>), <i>Et la mort perdra tout empire</i> (</i>House Made of Dawn, 2015 <i>) et <i>Tous les robots s'appellent Alex</i> (</i>Mots & Légendes, 2015 <i>).</i>
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The French authors are great pioneers in the short story format, with famous names of this genre such as Guy de Maupassant and Honore de Balzac. For the present book, the critic August Nemo has carefully selected seven short stories that exemplify the French tradition of the short story: - A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac - The Mummy's Foot by Theophile Gautier - The Torture of Hope by Villiers de L'isle Adam - The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant - The Dance of Death by Gustave Flaubert - Our Lady's Juggler by Anatole France - Doctor Ox's Experiment by Jules Verne For more books with interesting themes, be sure to check the other books in this collection!
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<b>Il vient de déserter Paris, son boulot, sa femme, terrassé par l'ennui et par l'habitude que procure la routine accablante. Elle s'est enfuie de New-York, poursuivie par des kidnappeurs. Rien n'annonçait leur recontre, mais le hasard liera leur destinée...</b> <br> <br>Maxence est au bord du burn-out, alors un jour il s’offre une respiration, une semaine de vacances volée à son boss et sa femme. <br>En chemin il croise Chloé, qui fuit New York et ceux qui la traquent. Il n’a que des doutes, elle n’a que des certitudes…démarre alors un road trip meurtrier, dont chaque étape les éloigne un peu plus de leur vie d’avant. Qu’en restera t’il au bout de la route ? <br> <br> <b>Un roman captivant aux histoires liées, aux rebondissements inattendus et course-poursuites à perte haleine. Impossible de le lâcher avant de connaitre le fin mot de l'histoire ! </b> <br> <br>EXTRAIT <br> <br>Maxence avait serré son poing à s’en faire mal et il sentait monter en lui tout à la fois la confiance et l’adrénaline dont il avait besoin. <br>Frapper le premier… aux cris de Chloé, Olivier avait juste commencé de tourner la tête vers lui, il la tenait toujours aussi fermement, il avait entrouvert la bouche… aucun son ne sortit, le poing le frappa sauvagement en plein visage et le sang gicla sans retenue sur le costume sombre et la chemise blanche. Il tomba lourdement au sol entrainant avec lui sa prisonnière. Il porta une main à son visage en émettant un gargouillis du fond de la gorge, sa main droite cherchait fébrilement quelque chose à l’intérieur de sa veste. Il avait lâché sa proie. <br>Frapper le plus fort possible… sans reprendre son souffle, Maxence lança son pied dans l’estomac de l’homme à terre. Le bruit sec, c’était à coup sûr des cotes qui cassaient. Il avait lancé son pied comme au foot, comme un gardien qui dégage et ce dégagement était réussi. <br>Décamper… ne pas poser de questions, on verrait ça après… il attrapa vivement Chloé par le bras, la tirant à lui et se rua vers sa voiture. <br> <br>A PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR - <b>Henri Clérau</b> <br> <br>Côté cour : des études supérieures, des voyages en Europe et en Amérique du Nord, une carrière menée dans plusieurs groupes internationaux. <br>Côté jardin: le cinéma, la littérature, la musique…et l’envie d’être acteur plus que spectateur… et l’envie d’écrire…c’est ainsi que nait « échappée fatale ». <br>
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Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle all the way… Christmas is here, and so are we with our biggest ever Christmas basket. There's something for everyone - novels, short stories, poems, and carols - for a cozy and wonderful holiday enjoyment. So grab a cup of coffee and soak into the spirit of festive cheer with our "The Big Christmas Basket": Novels: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (L. Frank Baum) Little Women (Louisa May Alcott) The Wonderful Wizard of OZ (L. Frank Baum) Little Lord Fauntleroy (Frances Hodgson Burnett) Anne of Green Gables (Lucy Maud Montgomery) Black Beauty (Anna Sewell) Christmas-Tree Land (M.L. Molesworth) Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame) Peter Pan and Wendy (J. M. Barrie) Oliver Twist Pollyanna (Eleanor H. Porter) At the Back of the North Wind (George MacDonald) A Versailles Christmas-Tide (A. S. Boyd) The Man Who Forgot Christmas (Max Brand)... Short Stories: A Merry Christmas & Other Christmas Stories (Louisa May Alcott) The Gift of the Magi (O. Henry) Papa Panov's Special Christmas (Leo Tolstoy) Doctor Marigold's Prescriptions (Charles Dickens) The Tailor of Gloucester (Beatrix Potter) The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Beatrix Potter) The Christmas Guest (Selma Lagerlöf) At Christmas Time (Anton Chekhov) Little Gretchen and the Wooden Shoe Toinette and the Elves (Susan Coolidge) The Heavenly Christmas Tree (Dostoevsky) The Princess and the Goblin The Nutcracker and the Mouse King The Little Match Girl Little Jean (Francois Coppe) How the Fir Tree Became the Christmas Tree The Magi in the West and Their Search for the Christ The Little Shepherd... Poems & Carols: Silent Night The Three Kings (H. W. Longfellow) Christmas Bells (Longfellow) Christmas at Sea (Stevenson) Christmas in the Olden Time (Walter Scott) Old Santa Claus (Clement Clarke Moore) The Twelve Days of Christmas Minstrels (Wordsworth) Ring Out, Wild Bells (Tennyson) Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity (John Milton) A Christmas Carol (Coleridge)…
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