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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. I stumbled upon this in a charity shop a couple of years ago. It's a huge volume, 1200 pages, collecting six previous collections of short stories. It's sits amongst other short story collections by my bed, and I dip into it occasionally. Always a good read, and something entirely different from Sherlock Holmes. A huge clollection that introduced me to many non-Holmes Doyle stories I had not known before. Some I like immensely, such as "the Croxton Master" about a medical student who earns much-need money by winning an old-fashioned prize fight against a very tough local champion. A few I dislike, mainly the Captain Sharkey stories about a really nasty pirate. Aside from Sharkey, nearly all are very worth reading. (I wonder if Saruman's nickname derives from this pirate?). This is a large omnibus edition and contains all the C.D. stories except for the Sherlock Holmes stories. Some of the stories are top-notch, ageless, others have not stood the test of time well. What else can you expect from such a tremendous output. well worth reading but I would skim through a few of them, and definitely skip "The horror of the Heights." sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The Conan Doyle Stories may come as a surprise to those readers who know Doyle only through Sherlock Holmes and the historical novels. Seventy-six complete tales show such genious for immiediately catching the reader's attention and imagination that the difficulty lies in knowing how to stop turning the pages. With over twelve hundred to turn, this is a book which will make you return to the beginning as soon as the last page has been read. -- Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)823.91Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999Clasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio:
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