Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Level 5 - Couverture souple

Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1555760643 ISBN 13 : 9781555760649

Editeur : Edcon Pub Group, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

To 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.

Biographie de l'auteur

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, DL (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a Scottish author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction, and the adventures of Professor Challenger. He was a prolific writer whose other works include science fiction stories, historical novels, plays and romances, poetry, and non-fiction. Conan was originally a given name, but Doyle used it as part of his surname in his later years. Source: Wikipedia

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edcon Pub Group
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1555760643
• ISBN 13: 9781555760649
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible