Arthur Conan Doyle: 1906 books

Une expédition dirigée par le docteur Maracot se retrouve confrontée au mystère de l’Atlantide... Conan Doyle est moins connu pour ses ouvrages de SF. Pourtant, « il y avait chez Conan Doyle », dira de lui Jacques Bergier, « une double personnalité provoquant un conflit entre la logique...

Sir Arthur Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor...

Sir Arthur Doyle was a Scottish physician and writer who is most noted for his fictional stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered milestones in the field of crime fiction. He is also known for writing the fictional adventures of a second character he invented, Professor...

"Die vergessene Welt" (im Original: "The Lost World") ist ein 1912 erschienener Roman des britischen Schriftstellers Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Im Zentrum der Erzählung steht die Erkundung eines geheimnisvollen südamerikanischen Plateaus im Dschungel (siehe Tepui), das von Urtieren bewohnt sein soll....

The White Company is a historical adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle set during the Hundred Years' War.[1] The story is set in England, France, and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward, the Black Prince to restore Peter of Castile to the throne of the Kingdom...

Hours of great reading await, with tales of war and military adventure by some of the greatest writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Ranging from classics of the Civil War to the World Wars to the future of war -- and many other battlefields -- here more than 640 pages of military fiction! Included...

There is no greater detective in fictitious London than Sherlock Holmes. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the late 1880's, the nimble-minded detective was known for his logical reasoning and early forensic science skills to solve England's most gruesome crimes. Along with his trusted sidekick Dr....

In 'Das Zeichen der Vier' aus dem Jahre 1902 (erste deutsche Fassung) geht es um das rätselhafte Verschwinden des Vaters von Mary Morstan, die anonym ein Geschenk erhalten hat: eine sehr große, prächtige Perle. Diese Schenkung wiederholt sich Jahr für Jahr zu ihrem Geburtstag. Doch nun ist die...

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930), best known as the author of Sherlock Holmes stories but also a devout spiritualist, was entirely convinced by a set of photographs apparently showing two young girls from Cottingley in Yorkshire playing with a group of tiny, translucent fairies. To demonstrate...

Most readers know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the rational detective who epitomized deductive logic. Who could have guessed that Doyle also wrote some of the most wildly imaginative tales of horror and supernatural published in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? The...

Though Doyle had killed off his character by 1894, he still wrote other short stories for publication in the "Strand Magazine". "The Lost Special" was one such story, a seemingly inexplicable mystery in which a special train and its few passengers disappear between two stations....

"His career has been a long one," Arthur Conan Doyle notes of his immortal creation, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle made his observation in the 1920s, when the detective had already been thrilling readers for 40 years, and he modestly attributed his hero's success to "the patience and loyalty...

Stabilitosi a Portsmouth dopo la laurea, il giovane Arthur Conan Doyle – alle spalle un’esperienza come medico di bordo su una baleniera nelle fredde acque della Groenlandia – era assillato dal desiderio di affermarsi nella professione medica e, soprattutto, di emergere come scrittore: dopo...

Pour son colonel, le hussard Gérard a la réputation d’être tout en moustache et en éperons. Vaut-il donc mieux que cela ? Car son habileté d’escrimeur est indéniable et il sera lui-même colonel à vingt-huit ans. Contrairement à nous, le colonel Gérard ne doute pas : il est le meilleur...