a study in scarlet summary arthur conan doyle

Cannibals or knights – sexual honor in the propaganda of Arthur Conan Doyle and W. T. Stead

Ngày tải lên : 01/11/2013, 08:20

... we may shoot the Kaﬃr for outraging a white woman, the inexpiable outrage remains. () By charging the African man with rape, Stead again avoids discussing British male sexuality as potentially ... public opinion? Was a British man in khaki a noble representative of his nation, carrying British ideals abroad? Or was he simply ‘ a single man in barracks,’’ as Kipling wrote? Soldiers had always ... Boer War writing. Race certainly came into play in public debate about the war, and in the Doyle- Stead debate both sides maligned Africans in much the same way as the writers about the concentration...

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ACCESS TO CREDIT OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION HOUSEHOLDS: A STUDY IN HAI DUONG PROVINCE, VIETNAM

Ngày tải lên : 28/08/2013, 09:18

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Thung lũng khủng khiếp-Arthur Conan Doyle

Ngày tải lên : 29/08/2013, 17:10

... phúc cho anh đó. Thế rồi không nói thêm một lời nào n a, anh ta chui vào chăn. Sáng hôm sau, chúng tôi đi gặp ông thanh tra MacDonald và thám tử Mason. Họ đang họp trong cơ quan cảnh sát đ a phương. ... khách c a khách sạn. Ông MacDonald giở sổ tay ra ghi. Còn Holmes thì có dáng điệu c a một nhà thực vật học v a ngạc nhiên v a ngắm ngh a một bông hoa. Sau khi nghe xong câu chuyện, anh ta reo ... quan đến hội kín. Ông thanh tra MacDonald hỏi: - Ông đã sống với ông Douglas trong bao lâu ở California? - Khoảng 5 năm. - Lúc đó Douglas sống độc thân? - G a vợ. - Bà vợ thứ nhất c a Douglas...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 15-3

Ngày tải lên : 18/10/2013, 01:15

... reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable ... mingled uneasiness and expectation beneath that mask which he was wont to assume. At last he started in his chair, and his eyes brightened. There had been a ring at the bell. A minute later ... had once been a skilful sculptor and had earned an honest living, but he had taken to evil courses and had twice already been in jail once for a petty theft, and once, as we had already heard,...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (2)

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2013, 20:15

... old-fashioned iron railings, its massive folding-door, and its shining brasswork. All was in keeping with a solemn butler who appeared framed in the pink radiance of a tinted electrical light ... be a line of fine houses lying in the vague borderland between Notting Hill and Kensington. The particular one at which my cabman pulled up had an air of smug and demure respectability in ... bedroom. For all that I knew the worst might have happened in my absence. To my enormous relief, he had improved greatly in the interval. His appearance was as ghastly as ever, but all trace of delirium...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURE OF THE DYING DETECTIVE ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (3)

Ngày tải lên : 24/10/2013, 20:15

... was certainly, as you said, very surprising that he should have contracted and out-of-the-way Asiatic disease in the heart of London a disease, too, of which I had made such a very special ... my amazement. He was speaking in his natural voice a little weak, perhaps, but the very voice I knew. There was a long pause, and I felt that Culverton Smith was standing in silent amazement ... amazement looking down at his companion. "What's the meaning of this?" I heard him say at last in a dry, rasping tone. "The best way of successfully acting a part is to be...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 3-2

Ngày tải lên : 29/10/2013, 02:15

... entered was a sturdy, middle-sized fellow, some thirty years of age, clean-shaven, and sallow-skinned, with a bland, insinuating manner, and a pair of wonderfully sharp and penetrating gray eyes. ... carried away, and, having quite made up her mind that her stepfather was in France, the suspicion of treachery never for an instant entered her mind. She was flattered by the gentleman's ... that may hang from a boot-lace. Now, what did you gather from that woman's appearance? Describe it." "Well, she had a slate-colored, broad-brimmed straw hat, with a feather...

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THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1

Ngày tải lên : 29/10/2013, 02:15

... we are, Egria. It is in a German-speaking country in Bohemia, not far from Carlsbad. 'Remarkable as being the scene of the death of Wallenstein, and for its numerous glass-factories and ... he was glad, I think, to see me. With hardly a word spoken, but with a kindly eye, he waved me to an armchair, threw across his case of cigars, and indicated a spirit case and a gasogene in ... without opening his eyes. For many years he had adopted a system of docketing all paragraphs concerning men and things, so that it was difficult to name a shown that you are one who may safely be...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1-2

Ngày tải lên : 08/11/2013, 02:15

... than once taken advantage of it. In the case of the Darlington substitution scandal it was of use to me, and also in the Arnsworth Castle business. A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried ... Lodge, and a gentleman sprang out. He was a remarkably handsome man, dark, aquiline, and moustached evidently the man of whom I had heard. He appeared to be in a great hurry, shouted to the cabman ... opened, and a drunkenlooking groom, ill-kempt and side-whiskered, with an inflamed face and disreputable clothes, walked into the room. Accustomed as I was to my friend's amazing "Away...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 1-3

Ngày tải lên : 08/11/2013, 02:15

... coachman, to watch you, ran up stairs, got into my walking-clothes, as I call them, and came down just as you departed. Well, I followed you to your door, and so made sure that I was really ... I found it hard to think evil of such a dear, kind old clergyman. But, you know, I have been trained as an actress myself. Male costume is nothing new to me. I often take advantage of the freedom ... chambers. And that was how a great scandal threatened to affect the kingdom of Bohemia, and how the best plans of Mr. Sherlock Holmes were beaten by a woman's wit. He used to make merry...

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LUYỆN ĐỌC TIẾNG ANH QUA TÁC PHẨM VĂN HỌC-THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES -ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE -2-1

Ngày tải lên : 08/11/2013, 02:15

... the front, and a drab waistcoat with a heavy brassy Albert chain, and a square pierced bit of metal dangling down as an ornament. A frayed top-hat and a faded brown overcoat with a wrinkled velvet ... sat a small man with a head that was even redder than mine. He said a few words to each candidate as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in them which would disqualify them. ... subject. That trick of staining the fishes' scales of a delicate pink is quite peculiar to China. When, in addition, I see a Chinese coin hanging from your watch-chain, the matter becomes...

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Ngày tải lên : 15/12/2013, 14:15

... that night, and he called next day to ask if we had got home all safe, and after that we met him that is to say, Mr. Holmes, I met him twice for walks, but after that father came back again, ... sum as a hundred a year, with what you earn into the bargain, you no doubt travel a little and indulge yourself in every way. I believe that a single lady can get on very nicely upon an income ... very quietly. It was to be at St. Saviour's, near King's Cross, and we were to have breakfast afterwards at the St. Pancras Hotel. Hosmer came for us in a hansom, but as there were two...

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Ngày tải lên : 15/12/2013, 14:15

... camp life in Afghanistan had at least had the effect of making me a prompt and ready traveller. My wants were few and simple, so that in less than the time stated I was in a cab with my valise, ... valise, rattling away to Paddington Station. Sherlock Holmes was pacing up and down the platform, his tall, gaunt figure made even gaunter and taller by his long gray travelling-cloak and close-fitting ... "It appears that his arrest did not take place at once, but after the return to Hatherley Farm. On the inspector of constabulary informing him that he was a prisoner, he remarked that he was...

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Ngày tải lên : 15/12/2013, 14:15

... taste," I remarked, "if it is indeed a fact that he was averse to a marriage with so charming a young lady as this Miss Turner." "Ah, thereby hangs a rather painful tale. ... hide anything. James and his father had many disagreements about me. Mr. McCarthy was very anxious that there should be a marriage between us. James and I have always loved each other as brother ... returned, and I have no idea how he came by his injuries. He was not a popular man, being somewhat cold and forbidding in his manners, but he had, as far as I know, no active enemies. I know nothing...

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Ngày tải lên : 15/12/2013, 14:15

... mad to think that I and all that I held most dear should be in the power of such a man as this. Could I not snap the bond? I was already a dying and a desperate man. Though clear of mind and ... There's two of us, me and my son, and you can have the keeping of us. If you don't it's a fine, law-abiding country is England, and there's always a policeman within hail.' ... It was mere chance that he was within earshot. The 'Cooee!' was meant to attract the attention of whoever it was that he had the appointment with. But 'Cooee' is a distinctly...