Este ebook presenta "Colección integral de Sherlock Holmes" con un sumario dinámico y detallado".
Sherlock Holmes es un personaje ficticio creado en 1887 por el escritor escocés Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, es un detective inglés de finales del siglo XIX, que destaca por su inteligencia, su hábil uso de la observación y el razonamiento deductivo para resolver casos difíciles. Es protagonista de una serie de cuatro novelas y cincuenta y seis relatos de ficción, que componen el «canon holmesiano», publicados en su mayoría por The Strand Magazine.
Sherlock Holmes es el arquetipo de investigador cerebral por excelencia e influyó en gran medida en la ficción detectivesca posterior a su aparición. Aunque podemos considerar a Auguste Dupine, creado por Edgar Allan Poe, como un personaje predecesor muy similar, la genialidad excéntrica de éste no alcanzó la enorme popularidad que Holmes y su autor alcanzaron en vida de éste.
Tabla de contenidos:
Estudio en Escarlata
El Signo de los cuatro
Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes
El Sabueso de los Baskerville
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), escritor y médico escocés. Además de haber creado al inmortal detective Sherlock Holmes, escribió novelas del género fantástico, como "El mundo perdido", otras de corte histórico, obras de teatro, y poesía.
Este ebook presenta "Un escándalo en Bohemia (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.|
Escándalo en Bohemia es el primero de los 57 relatos cortos sobre Sherlock Holmes escrito por Arthur Conan Doyle y publicado originalmente en The Strand Magazine y posteriormente recogido en la colección Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes en 1891. Es uno de los pocos relatos en los que Holmes es derrotado por su rival, y este rival no es otro que la bellísima Irene Adler, un personaje que, pese a su breve aparición en este relato, adquirió una fama extraordinaria entre todos los fans del famoso detective.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) fue un médico y escritor escocés, creador del célebre detective de ficción Sherlock Holmes. Fue un autor prolífico cuya obra incluye relatos de ciencia ficción, novela histórica, teatro y poesía.
Este ebook presenta "Lo mejor de Sherlock Holmes" con un sumario dinámico y detallado.
Sherlock Holmes es un personaje ficticio creado en 1887 por Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Es un detective inglés de finales del siglo XIX, que destaca por su inteligencia, su hábil uso de la observación y el razonamiento deductivo para resolver casos difíciles. Es protagonista de una serie de cuatro novelas y cincuenta y seis relatos de ficción, que componen el canon holmesiano publicados en su mayoría por The Strand Magazine. Sherlock Holmes es el arquetipo de investigador cerebral por excelencia e influyó en gran medida en la ficción detectivesca posterior a su aparición.
Tabla de contenidos:
Estudio en Escarlata
El Signo de los cuatro
Las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes
Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes
El Sabueso de los Baskerville
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), escritor y médico escocés. Además de haber creado al inmortal detective Sherlock Holmes, fue autor de novelas del género fantástico y de corte histórico, obras de teatro, y poesía.
This carefully crafted ebook: "49 Tales of The Thinking Machine (49 detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine")" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Professor Van Dusen is a fictional character in a series of detective short stories and two novels by Jacques Futrelle. Some of the short stories were originally published in The Saturday Evening Post and the Boston American.
In the stories Professor Van Dusen solves a variety of different mysteries together with his friend Hutchinson Hatch, reporter of a fictional newspaper called "The Daily New Yorker". The professor is known as the "Thinking Machine", solving problems by the remorseless application of logic. His catchphrases include, "Two and two always equal four," "Nothing is impossible", and "All things that start must go somewhere."
Table of Contents :
"The Thinking Machine"
My first Experience with the great Logician
A Piece of String
The Problem of the Perfect Alibi
The Problem of the Stolen Bank Notes
The Problem of Convict no. 97
The first problem
The Problem of the Crystal Gazer
Five Millions by Wireless
The Problem of the Green Eyed Monster
The Problem of the Hidden Million
Kidnapped Baby Blake, Millionaire
The Problem of the Missing Necklace
The Problem of the Motor Boat
The Mystery of the Ralston Bank Burglary
The Problem of the Opera Box
The Problem of the Cross Mark
The Problem of the Broken Bracelet
The Problem of the Lost Radium
The Problem of the Stolen Rubens
The Problem of the Souvenir Cards
The Problem of the Superfluous Finger
The case of the Scientific Murderer
The Problem of the Deserted House
The Mystery of the Fatal Cipher
The Mystery of the Flaming Phantom
The Problem of the Ghost Woman
The Mystery of the Golden Dagger
The Great Auto Mystery
The Grinning God
The Mystery of the Grip of Death
The Haunted Bell
The Jackdaw
The Problem of the Knotted Cord
The Mystery of the Man Who Was Lost
The Mystery of a Studio
The Problem of the Organ Grinder
The Phantom Motor
The Problem of the Private Compartment
The Problem of the Auto Cab
The Problem of the Red Rose
The Roswell Tiara
The Mystery of the Scarlet Thread
The Silver Box
The three Overcoats
The Tragedy of the Life Raft
The Problem of Cell 13
The Problem of the Vanishing man
The Problem of the Interrupted Wireless
Jacques Heath Futrelle (1875 - 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer. He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. Futrelle died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Negligible Tales (14 Unabridged Tales)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This ebook is a collection of rather morbid and grotesques tales by Ambrose Bierce.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American satirist, critic, poet, editor and journalist. Bierce became a prolific author of short stories often humorous and sometimes bitter or macabre. His dark, sardonic views and vehemence as a critic earned him the nickname, "Bitter Bierce".
Book content:
A Bottomless Grave
Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General
The Widower Turmore
The city of the Gone Away
The Major sTale
Curried Cow
A Revolt of the Gods
The Baptism of Dobsho
The Race at Left Bower
The Failure of Hope Wandel
Perry Chumly s Eclipse
A Providential Intimation
Mr. Swiddler s Flip-Flap
The Little Story
This carefully crafted ebook: The Complete Short Stories: 69 Horror & Crime Tales is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This collection comprises 69 short stories - all of the stories Poe is known to have written.
Table of contents:
The Bargain Lost (1831), Loss of Breath (1831), A Dream (1831), The Duc de L'Omelette (1831), Metzengerstein (1831), A Tale of Jerusalem (1831), The Assignation (1833), Four Beasts in One (1833), Manuscript Found in a Bottle (1833), A Parable (1833), Silence A Fable (1833), Berenice (1835), Bon-Bon (1835), King Pest (1835), Lionizing (1835), Morella (1835), The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaal (1835), Mystification (1837), Why the Little Frenchman Wears His Hand in a Sling (1837), How to Write a Blackwood Article (1838), Ligeia (1838), The Conversation of Eiros and Charmion (1839), The Devil in the Belfry (1839), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839), The Man That Was Used Up (1839), William Wilson (1839), The Journal of Julius Rodman (1839-1840), The Business Man (1840), Lionizing (1835), The Man of the Crowd (1840), The Colloquy of Monos and Una (1841), A Descent into the Maelstrm (1841), Eleonora (1841), The Island of the Fay (1841), The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841), Never Bet the Devil Your Head (1841), Three Sundays in a Week (1841), The Black Cat (1842), The Domain of Arnheim (1842), The Masque of the Red Death (1842), The Oval Portrait (1842), The Pit and the Pendulum (1842), The Tell-Tale Heart (1842), Diddling Considered as One of the Exact Sciences (1843), The Gold-Bug (1843), The Angel of the Odd (1844), The Balloon-Hoax (1844), The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq. (1844), Mesmeric Revelation (1844), The Oblong Box (1844), The Purloined Letter (1844), The Premature Burial (1844), Some Words with a Mummy (1844), The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether (1844), A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (1844), The Spectacles (1844), Thou Art the Man (1844), The Thousand-and-Second Tale of Scheherazade (1844), The Imp of the Perverse (1845), The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (1845), The Power of Words (1845), The Sphinx (1845), The Cask of Amontillado (1846), Landor's Cottage (1848), Mellonta Tauta (1848), Von Kempelen and His Discovery (1849), The Mystery of Marie Roget (1842-1843).
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) was an American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor . Edgar Allan Poe's tales of mystery and horror initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His The Raven (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in national literature.
Ce livre numérique présente "La Sonate à Kreutzer: Collection intégrale (3 Traductions en un seul livre)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
La Sonate à Kreutzer est une nouvelle en langue russe de Léon Tolstoï qu'il écrivit dans sa maison de Moscou et qui fut publiée en 1889. Le titre fait référence à la Sonate pour violon et piano no 9 en la majeur, dite "Sonate à Kreutzer", de Beethoven, que joue l'un des protagonistes de l'ouvrage. Le texte a inspiré par la suite plusieurs oeuvres musicales, dont le premier quatuor de Leos Janácek. Il a également été porté plusieurs fois à l'écran. Résumé: Au début du printemps, lors d'un voyage de plusieurs jours en train, le narrateur est dans un compartiment avec trois personnes depuis le départ du train. Une femme déjà âgée, un ami à elle qui se révèlera être un avocat et un homme sans âge aux cheveux blancs. La femme et l'avocat parlent des relations homme-femme et de l'augmentation du nombre de divorces, l'homme aux cheveux blancs qui était jusque-là taciturne se joint à la conversation et prétend que l'amour n'existe pas, qu'il s'agit tout au plus d'une attirance physique qui ne dure pas. Puis il se présente, il s'appelle Pozdnychev et il a tué sa femme.
Léon Tolstoï (1828-1910) est un des écrivains majeurs de la littérature russe, surtout connu pour ses romans et ses nouvelles, riches d'analyse psychologique et de réflexion morale et philosophique (Guerre et Paix, Anna Karénine).
Table des matières:
La Sonate à Kreutzer - Traduction par Isaac Pavlovsky et J.-H. Rosny aîné
La Sonate à Kreutzer - Traduction par E. Halpérine-Kaminsky
La Sonate à Kreutzer - Traduction par J.-Wladimir Bienstock
Ce livre numérique présente "Toutes les aventures de Monsieur Lecoq (La collection intégrale)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Émile Gaboriau (1832-1873) est un écrivain français, considéré comme le père du roman policier. Son personnage, l'enquêteur Lecoq, a influencé Conan Doyle pour la création de Sherlock Holmes. Il a lui-même été très influencé par Edgar Allan Poe. Son premier roman, L'Affaire Lerouge, d'abord publié sans succès sous forme de feuilleton en 1863, devint très populaire en 1866. L'auteur y met en scène le Père Tabaret, dit Tirauclair, et introduit l'agent de la sécurité Lecoq, qui deviendra un commissaire célèbre et le personnage principal des romans suivants. Inspiré par le chef de la sûreté François Vidocq, déjà à l'origine du Vautrin de Balzac, il est le modèle du détective ingénieux qui, n'hésitant pas à se travestir, résout des énigmes par ses capacités déductives hors normes. Ce dernier personnage devait inspirer Conan Doyle et Maurice Leblanc. Mais, à la différence de Sherlock Holmes, les enquêtes de Lecoq reposent sur des investigations plus réalistes, plus proches des progrès de la police scientifique de l'époque. Les romans policiers de Gaboriau font pénétrer l'intrigue dans les milieux sociaux, qu'ils décrivent d'une manière qu'on peut qualifier de "naturaliste". En cela, l'influence de Gaboriau sur le roman policier français reste très importante. Ses analyses psychologiques très fines (Le Crime d'Orcival) ont inspiré jusqu'à Georges Simenon.
Table des matières
L'affaire Lerouge - 1870
Le Crime d'Orcival - 1866
Le Dossier no 113 - 1867
Les Esclaves de Paris - 1868
Monsieur Lecoq (I & II) - 1869
Ce livre numérique présente "Toutes les OEuvres Majeures: L'Affaire Lerouge + Le Crime d'Orcival + Le Dossier 113 + Monsieur Lecoq (I & II) et beaucoup plus (L'édition intégrale de 14 oeuvres)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Émile Gaboriau (1832-1873) est un écrivain français, considéré comme le père du roman policier. Son personnage, l'enquêteur Lecoq, a influencé Conan Doyle pour la création de Sherlock Holmes. Il a lui-même été très influencé par Edgar Allan Poe.
Table des matières:
Les cotillons célèbres (I & II) - 1861
Les gens de bureau - 1862
L'affaire Lerouge - 1870
Le crime d'Orcival - 1866
Le dossier no 113 - 1867
Les esclaves de Paris - 1868
Monsieur Lecoq (I & II) - 1869
La vie infernale - 1870
La dégringolade - 1871
La clique dorée - 1871
La corde au cou - 1873
L'Argent des autres (I & II) - 1873
Le petit vieux des Batignolles - 1876
Les Amours d'une empoisonneuse - 1881
Ce livre numérique présente la collection intégrale de Sherlock Holmes, en ordre chronologique, avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée.
Sherlock Holmes est un personnage de fiction créé par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) dans le roman policier Une étude en rouge en 1887. Détective privé et consultant doté d'une mémoire remarquable pour tout ce qui peut l'aider à résoudre des crimes en général, il a très peu de savoirs dans les autres domaines de la connaissance. Lors de ses enquêtes, plusieurs relatées dans les 4 romans et les 56 nouvelles qui forment ce qu'on appelle le canon, il est fréquemment accompagné du Docteur Watson.
Personnage très « typé », Sherlock Holmes est devenu l'archétype du « private detective » pour des générations d'auteurs populaires de roman policier, éclipsant ses ancêtres historiques que furent le Chevalier Auguste Dupin d'Edgar Allan Poe et Monsieur Lecoq d'Émile Gaboriau (le père du genre polar), personnages auxquels Arthur Conan Doyle fait pourtant référence dans son oeuvre.
Contenu du livre:
Les 4 romans :
- Une étude en rouge
- Le signe des quatre
- Le chien des Baskerville
- La Vallée de la peur
Les 56 nouvelles du « canon » :
Les aventures de Sherlock holmes
- Un scandale en bohème
- La ligue des rouquins
- Une affaire d'identité
- Le mystère de la vallée de Boscombe
- Les cinq pépins d'Orange
- L'homme à la lèvre tordue
- L'escarboucle bleue
- Aventure de la bande mouchetée
- Le Pouce de l'Ingénieur
- L'aristocratique célibataire
- Le Diadème de Béryls
- Les hêtres pourpres
Les mémoires de Sherlock Holmes
- Flamme d'argent
- La boite en carton
- La figure jaune
- L'employé de l'agent de change
- Le Gloria-Scott
- Le rituel des Musgrave
- Les propriétaires de Réigate
- Le malade pensionnaire
- L'Homme estropié
- L'interprète grec
- Le traité naval
- Le problème final
Le retour de Sherlock Holmes
- Charles-Auguste Milverton
- L'école du prieuré
- L'entrepreneur de Norwood
- La cycliste solitaire
- La deuxième tâche
- La maison vide
- Le champion qui manque
- Le manoir de l'abaye
- Le pince-nez en or
- Les hommes dansants
- Les six Napoléons
- Les trois étudiants
- Peter le Noir
Son dernier coup d'archet
- L'aventure de Wisteria Lodge
- Les plans du Bruce-Partington
- L'aventure du pied du diable
- L'aventure du cercle rouge
- La disparition de Lady Frances Carfax
- L'aventure du détective agonisant
- Son dernier coup d'archet
Les archives de Sherlock Holmes
- La Pierre de Mazarin
- Le problème du Pont de Thor
- L'homme qui grimpait
- Le Vampire du Sussex
- Les trois Garideb
- L'illustre client
- Les trois pignons
- Le soldat blanchi
- La crinière du Lion
- Le marchand de couleur retiré des affaires
- La pensionnaire voilée
- L'aventure de Shoscombe Old Place
Traductions de:
Jeanne de Polignac (1861-1919)
Albert Savine (1859-1927)
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Father Brown Mysteries (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 51 detective short stories, most of which were later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on Father John O'Connor, a parish priest in Bradford who was involved in Chesterton's conversion to Catholicism. The relationship was recorded by O'Connor in his 1937 book Father Brown on Chesterton.
This omnibus contains the following books:
1. The Innocence of Father Brown
2. The Wisdom of Father Brown
3. The Incredulity of Father Brown
4. The Secret of Father Brown
5. The Scandal of Father Brown
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 - 1936) was an English writer, lay theologian, poet, dramatist, journalist, orator, literary and art critic, biographer, and Christian apologist. Chesterton is often referred to as the "prince of paradox".
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected "Sherlock Holmes" Stories (4 novels and 44 short stories + An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes by Conan Doyle himself)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The collection of "The Collected "Sherlock Holmes" Stories includes :
Essay: An Intimate Study of Sherlock Holmes (Conan Doyle's thoughts about Sherlock Holmes)
Novels:
A Study In Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
Short story collections:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) 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 Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Mystery of the Yellow Room (The first detective Joseph Rouletabille novel and one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux, is one of the first locked room mystery crime fiction novels. It was first published in France in 1908. It is the first novel starring fictional detective Joseph Rouletabille, and concerns a complex and seemingly impossible crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room. Leroux provides the reader with detailed, precise diagrams and floorplans illustrating the scene of the crime. The emphasis of the story is firmly on the intellectual challenge to the reader, who will almost certainly be hard pressed to unravel every detail of the situation.
Table of Contents :
Chapter 1. In Which We Begin Not to Understand
Chapter 2. In Which Joseph Roultabille Appears for the First Time
Chapter 3. "A Man Has Passed Like a Shadow Through the Blinds"
Chapter 4. "In the Bosom of Wild Nature"
Chapter 5. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Makes a Remark to Monsieur Robert Darzac Which Produces Its Little Effect
Chapter 6. In the Heart of the Oak Grove
Chapter 7. In Which Rouletabille Sets Out on an Expedition Under the Bed
Chapter 8. The Examining Magistrate Questions Mademoiselle Stangerson
Chapter 9. Reporter and Detective
Chapter 10. "We Shall Have to Eat Red Meat-Now"
Chapter 11. In Which Frederic Larsan Explains How the Murderer Was Able to Get Out of The Yellow Room
Chapter 12. Frederic Larsan's Cane
Chapter 13. "The Presbytery Has Lost Nothing of Its Charm, Nor the Garden Its Brightness"
Chapter 14. "I Expect the Assassin This Evening"
Chapter 15. The Trap
Chapter 16. Strange Phenomenon of the Dissociation of Matter
Chapter 17. The Inexplicable Gallery
Chapter 18. Rouletabille Has Drawn a Circle Between the Two Bumps on His Forehead
Chapter 19. Rouletabille Invites Me to Breakfast at the Donjon Inn
Chapter 20. An Act of Mademoiselle Stangerson
Chapter 21. On the Watch
Chapter 22. The Incredible Body
Chapter 23. The Double Scent
Chapter 24. Rouletabille Knows the Two Halves of the Murderer
Chapter 25. Rouletabille Goes on a Journey
Chapter 26. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Is Awaited with Impatience
Chapter 27. In Which Joseph Rouletabille Appears in All His Glory
Chapter 28. In Which It Is Proved That One Does Not Always Think of Everything
Chapter 29. The Mystery of Mademoiselle Stangerson
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux ( 1868 - 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction. In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera.
Ce livre numérique présente "Les Aventures Complètes d'Arsène Lupin (L'édition intégrale de 23 oeuvres)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Ce livre contient la série Arsène Lupin qui compte 19 romans et 4 recueils de nouvelle. Arsène Lupin parue en 1905, il présente la particularité de se grimer, se maquiller, se déguiser ou même se transformer selon le personnage qu'il incarne. Néanmoins, au naturel, il s'agit, semble-t-il, d'un personnage plutôt élancé, de belle allure et d'une force peu commune, liée à son entraînement. Il fait montre de ses talents dans de nombreuses aventures qui se suivent chronologiquement et ont pour cadre la France de la Belle Époque puis, plus brièvement, celle des Années Folles. Sa répulsion à tuer et son respect des femmes le rendent fort sympathique pour un large public jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Maurice Leblanc est un écrivain français (1864-1941), à Perpignan. Auteur de nombreux romans policiers et d'aventures, il est le créateur du célèbre personnage d'Arsène Lupin, le gentleman-cambrioleur.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Woman in White (illustrated) + The Moonstone + The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice" contains 3 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Woman in White is an epistolary novel written by Wilkie Collins in 1859, serialized in 1859-1860, and first published in book form in 1860. It is considered to be among the first mystery novels and is widely regarded as one of the first in the genre of 'sensation novels'. The story is sometimes considered an early example of detective fiction with the hero, Walter Hartright, employing many of the sleuthing techniques of later private detectives.
The Moonstone (1868) by Wilkie Collins is an epistolary novel, generally considered the first detective novel in the English language. The Moonstone is about the disappearance of a precious diamond called "the Moonstone", and the novel is a collection of eyewitness accounts by different characters who know something about its disappearance. The idea was for the novel itself to be like a collection of evidence so that the readers could be put in the position of the detective.
The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice is a Wilkie Collins's ghost story was set in 1860 and published in book form with 'My Lady's Money'. The Haunted Hotel: a tale of a haunting - or the tale of a crime? The ghost of Lord Montberry seems to be haunting the Palace Hotel in Venice. Montberry's beautiful-yet-terrifying wife, the Countess Narona, and her erstwhile brother are the center of the terror that fills the Palace Hotel. Are their malefactions at the root of the haunting - or is there something darker, something much more unknowable at work?
William Wilkie Collins (1824 - 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. His best-known works are The Woman in White, The Moonstone, Armadale, and No Name. Collins developed a new way of writing suspenseful novels: instead of having a central narrator who tells the story, Collins composed his novels as a series of first-person narratives, so the point of view in the novels is always changing.
This carefully crafted ebook: "Crime and Punishment (The Unabridged Garnett Translation)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is the version based on the Unabridged Garnett Translation.
Crime and Punishment is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, first published in 1866. It is the second of Dostoyevsky's full-length novels following his return from ten years of exile in Siberia.
Crime and Punishment focuses on the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of Rodion Raskolnikov, an impoverished ex-student in St. Petersburg who formulates and executes a plan to kill an unscrupulous pawnbroker for her cash. Raskolnikov argues that with the pawnbroker's money he can perform good deeds to counterbalance the crime, while ridding the world of a worthless vermin. He also commits this murder to test his own hypothesis that some people are naturally capable of such things, and even have the right to do them. Several times throughout the novel, Raskolnikov justifies his actions by connecting himself mentally with Napoleon Bonaparte, believing that murder is permissible in pursuit of a higher purpose.
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821 - 1881) was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky's literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Sherlock Holmes Novels & Stories (4 Novels + 44 Short Stories)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This collection of the works of Arthur Conan Doyle includes the following novels and stories in one ebook:
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Valley of Fear
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
His Last Bow: Some Later Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) 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 Challenger, and for popularising the mystery of the Mary Celeste. He was a prolific writer whose other works include fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Death of Olivier Becaille (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Zola's horrific short story depicts a man, Olivier Becaille, in a temporary coma and paralytic state. This condition leads his wife to believe he is dead. It even fools the doctor. Funeral and burial arrangements are made and carried out. Readers' will experience their worst fear through the eyes of Olivier Becaille.
Émile Zola (1840 - 1902), French novelist, critic, and political activist who was the most prominent French novelist of the late 19th century. He was noted for his theories of naturalism, which underlie his monumental 20-novel series Les Rougon-Macquart, and for his intervention in the Dreyfus Affair through his famous open letter, "J'accuse."
This carefully crafted ebook: "Naïs Micoulin (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
Naïs Micoulin (1884) was one of Zola's short stories about the trials of a factory worker in what was then the village of L'Estaque and is now administratively part of Marseille.
Naïs, the wild child, has grown up into a sensual young lady. Stirred to the depths of his soul, Frederick contemplates his servant and soon, they indulge in caresses. Until Naïs' father swears to kill the man who dared to touch his daughter.
Émile Zola (1840 - 1902) was an influential French novelist, the most important example of the literary school of naturalism, and a major figure in the political liberalization of France.
More than half of Zola's novels were part of a set of 20 books collectively known as Les Rougon-Macquart. Zola from the start at the age of 28 had thought of the complete layout of the series. Set in France's Second Empire, the series traces the "environmental" influences of violence, alcohol and prostitution which became more prevalent during the second wave of the Industrial Revolution. The series examines two branches of a family: the respectable (that is, legitimate) Rougons and the disreputable (illegitimate) Macquarts for five generations.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Story of Willie Ellin" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
This unfinished fragment contains the poignant story of an abused child. After abandoning the work, Charlotte later incorporated it into another work called 'Emma'.
Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855), English writer noted for her novel Jane Eyre (1847) and sister of Anne Brontë and Emily Brontë. The three sisters are almost as famous for their short, tragic lives as for their novels. In their works they described love more truthfully that was common in Victorian age England. In the past 40 years Charlotte Brontë's reputation has risen rapidly, and feminist criticism has done much to show that she was speaking up for oppressed women of every age.
This carefully crafted ebook: "The Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Cask of Amontillado, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, The Black Cat, The Murders in the Rue Morgue" contains the Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
Is a short story told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards.
Fall of the House of Usher (1839)
As in all of Poe's short stories, "The Fall of the House of Usher" concentrates on a "single effect", in this case, the degeneration and decay of the Usher house and family.
The Cask of Amontillado (1846)
The story is set in a nameless Italian city in an unspecified year and is about the narrator's deadly revenge on a friend who, he believes, has insulted him. The narrative revolves around a person being buried alive-in this case, by immurement.
The Pit and the Pendulum (1842)
The short story is about the torments endured by a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, though Poe skews historical facts. The narrator of the story describes his experience of being tortured. The story is especially effective at inspiring fear in the reader because of its heavy focus on the senses, such as sound, emphasizing its reality, unlike many of Poe's stories which are aided by the supernatural.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1843)
It is told by an unnamed narrator who endeavors to convince the reader of his sanity, while describing a murder he committed. The murder is carefully calculated, and the murderer hides the body by dismembering it and hiding it under the floorboards. Ultimately the narrator's guilt manifests itself in the form of the sound - possibly hallucinatory - of the old man's heart still beating under the floorboards.
The Masque of the Red Death (1842)
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color. In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious figure disguised as a Red Death victim enters and makes his way through each of the rooms.
The Black Cat (1843)
It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart". In both, a murderer carefully conceals his crime and believes himself unassailable, but eventually breaks down and reveals himself, impelled by a nagging reminder of his guilt.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841)
It has been recognized as the first detective story. C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mystery of the brutal murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a hair that does not appear to be human.
American author Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849) defined the genre of macabre story-telling in the first half of the 19th century. Poe, known for psychologically thrilling tales with morbid undertones, is generally considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre. He is further credited with contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction. Today it is regarded as an early and supreme example of Gothic horror, and still stands out among the author's many well-known works.
Ce livre numérique présente "Crime et châtiment - Tome 1 et 2 (L'édition intégrale - 2 volumes)" avec une table des matières dynamique et détaillée. Notre édition a été spécialement conçue pour votre tablette/liseuse et le texte a été relu et corrigé soigneusement.
Crime et Châtiment est un roman de Dostoïevski publié en 1866. Cette oeuvre est une des plus connues du romancier et exprime les vues religieuses et existentialistes de Dostoïevski, en insistant sur le thème du salut par la souffrance. Le roman dépeint l'assassinat d'une vieille prêteuse sur gage et de sa soeur cadette par Raskolnikov, un ancien étudiant de Saint-Pétersbourg, et ses conséquences émotionnelles, mentales et physiques sur le meurtrier.
Fédor Dostoïevski (1821-1881) est un écrivain russe. Considéré comme l'un des plus grands romanciers russes, il a influencé de nombreux écrivains et philosophes.
Avec Poker d'as, Bernède signe un roman policier passionnant et original. La marquise de Rhuys a deux fils, des jumeaux aux caractères et aux vies totalement différents : le premier, Robert, est un écrivain reconnu et même académicien. Le deuxième, Jean, est un aventurier surnommé Poker d'As au passé plus tumultueux. Il a en effet commis un crime et vit donc à l'étranger pour se faire oublier. Il revient en France avec l'intention de dérober de l'argent à sa mère mais Robert le surprend. L'altercation qui s'ensuit est fatale : Robert tue Jean. Pour que le déshonneur ne tombe pas sur la famille, Robert va prendre l'identité de Jean et faire croire à son propre décès. Une situation des plus compliquées à tenir qui va engendrer de nombreux rebondissements.
Arthur Bernède (1871 - 1937), est un romancier populaire français. Auteur très prolixe, il a créé plusieurs centaines de personnages romanesques, dont certains, devenus très célèbres, tels que Belphégor, Judex et Mandrin, ont effacé leur créateur. Il a également mis en scène Vidocq, inspiré par les exploits de ce chef de la Sûreté haut en couleurs. Il est également connu sous les noms de plume de Jean de la Périgne et de Roland d'Albret.
Este ebook presenta "Las Memorias de Sherlock Holmes (texto completo, con índice activo)" con un sumario dinámico y detallado".
Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes es una colección de historias de Sherlock Holmes, originariamente publicado en 1894, por Arthur Conan Doyle. Los temas de estas historias son variados: así, La Gloria Scott, El hombre encorvado y El paciente interno tratan de dilucidar crímenes ocurridos en el pasado; El tratado naval es una historia de espionaje; El Squire de Reigate y El intérprete griego nos hablan de la avaricia; o El empleado de correduría de bolsa, que trata de un timo cometido por motivos inconfesables.
Arthur Conan Doyle se sintió abrumado por la fama del personaje y lo hace morir (o eso parece) en el ultimo cuento "El problema final". No resistiría la presión y años más tarde hubo de resucitarlo.
Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930) fue un escritor y médico escocés. Además de haber creado al inmortal detective Sherlock Holmes, escribió novelas del género fantástico, como "El mundo perdido", otras de corte histórico, obras de teatro, y poesía.
