This is an account of the wanderings of a spiritualist, geographical and speculative. Should the reader have no interest in psychic things--if indeed any human being can be so foolish as not to be interested in his own nature and fate, --then this is the place to put the book down. It were better also to end the matter now if you have no patience with a go-as-you-please style of narrative, which founds itself upon the conviction that thought may be as interesting as action, and which is bound by its very nature to be intensely personal

Los mejores relatos de Holmes son El signo de los cuatro (1890), Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (1892), El sabueso de Baskerville (1902) y su ultimo saludo en el escenario (1917), gracias a los cuales se hizo mundialmente famoso y popularizo el genero de la novela policiaca. Surgio, y todavia pervive, el culto al detective Holmes. Gracias a su versatilidad literaria, Conan Doyle tuvo el mismo exito con sus novelas historicas, como Micah Clarke (1888), La compania blanca (1890), Rodney Stone (1896) y Sir Nigel (1906), asi como con su obra de teatro Historia de Waterloo (1894). Durante la...

The series of incidents set forth in this little volume represent either the most elaborate and ingenious hoax ever played upon the public, or else they constitute an event in human history which may in the future appear to have been epoch-making in its character. It is hard for the mind to grasp what the ultimate results may be if we have actually proved the existence upon the surface of this planet of a population which may be as numerous as the human race, which pursues its own strange life in its own strange way, and which is only separated from ourselves by some difference of...

This classic work by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is a fascinating story about the potential danger of mesmerism, penned before anyone knew much about hypnosis.

"But why Turkish?" asked Mr. Sherlock Holmes, gazing fixedly at my boots. I was reclining in a cane-backed chair at the moment, and my protruded feet had attracted his ever-active attention. "English," I answered in some surprise. "I got them at Latimer's, in Oxford Street."

I find it recorded in my notebook that it was a bleak and windy day towards the end of March in the year 1892. Holmes had received a telegram while we sat at our lunch, and he had scribbled a reply. He made no remark, but the matter remained in his thoughts, for he stood in front of the fire afterwards with a thoughtful face, smoking his pipe, and casting an occasional glance at the message. Suddenly he turned upon me with a mischievous twinkle in his eyes.

** - THEY WERE MOBBED -

** - DRIVEN OUT OF TOWN -

** - NEARLY BLUDGEONED TO DEATH --

** -- ONE AUDIENCE MEMBER WAS DISMEMBERED -

** --AND THEIR VALET DIED UNDER TRAGIC CIRCUMSTANCES

The saga of the Davenport brothers began in 1846, when they, their parents and younger sister heard raps, thumps and sundry other loud noises in the air that defied understanding. Later, the Davenports gathered around the family table and within a few minutes the young siblings were floating in the air around the kitchen.

In time, heir public seances could only be categorized as...

THE LOST WORLD was Professor Challenger's first adventure for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ned Malone narrates the story (aka Dr. Watson). Ned's just been jilted by his lady love, Gladys, so he's up for a new adventure. Still, it takes Prof. Challenger some doing to convince the young man to go along - including a bit of fisticuffs The story is a far departure from the Sherlock Holmes series - even in genre This is Science Fiction. True science fiction, as it was designed by the likes of H.G. Wells The Professor takes Mr. Malone - and others in the zoological field he's been able to cajole into...

Jabez Wilson, a London pawnbroker, consults with Sherlock Holmes. While studying his client, both Holmes and Watson notice his red hair. Wilson tells them an intriguing but odd story - just what Holmes had been looking for All the client seems to be concerned with is his loss of 4 a week; but Holmes sees an intriguing diversion for himself Holmes enlists the services of his companion Dr. Watson, when things look like they might get dangerous, as Holmes finds himself on the trail of one of the most insidious criminals in all of London "