eBooks „hound“
33 eBooks were found for the search term „hound“.
Charlotte M. Yonge
Unknown To History (fiscle part-XII) Part 2
- Short Story
- English
- 88000 Words
- Ages 18 and up
- 2
It Was A Rainy November Afternoon. Dinner Was Over, The Great Wood
Fire Had Been Made Up, And Mistress Talbot Was Presiding over The
Womenfolk Of Her Household And Their Tasks With Needle And Distaff. She
Had Laid Hands On Her Unwilling son Edward To Show His Father How Well
He Could Read The Piece De Resistance Of The Family, Fabyan'S
Chronicle; And The Boy, With An Elbow Firmly Planted on Either Side Of
The Great Folio, Was Floundering through The Miseries Of King stephen'S
Time; While Mr. Talbot, After Smoothing the Head Of His Largest Hound
For Some Minutes, Had Leant Back In his Chair And Dropped asleep.
Cicely'S Hand Tardily Drew Out Her Thread, Her Spindle Scarcely
Balanced itself On The Floor, And Her Maiden Meditation Was In an
Inactive Sort Of Way Occupied with The Sense Of Dulness After The
Summer Excitements, And Wonder Whether Her Greatness Were All A Dream,
And Anything would Happen To Recall Her Once More To Be A Princess.
The Kitten At Her Feet Took The Spindle For A Lazily Moving creature,
And Thought Herself Fascinating it, So She Stared hard, With Only An
Occasional Whisk Of The End Of Her Striped tail; And Mistress Susan Was
Only Kept Awake By Her Anxiety To Adapt Diccon'S Last Year'S Jerkin To
Ned'S Use. [more]
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated)
- Fiction
- English
- 525486 Words
- Ages 10 and up
- 225
Sherlock Holmes (/ˈʃɜrlɒk ˈhoʊmz/) is a fictional detective created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a graduate of the University of Edinburgh Medical School. A London-based "consulting detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891; further series of short stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927. The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.
The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
The Return Of Sherlock Holmes
The Valley of Fear
A Study in Scarlet
The Sign of the Four
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Final Problem [more]
Keywords: thriller
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Jay Holloway
The Prang Codex
Preview & sample chapters
- Fiction
- English
- 2 Words
- No Age Recommendation
- 328
- 1
A preview and extracts from The Prang Codex, an episodic collection of tales set loosely in the mid twelfth century, in the last remaining independent Saxon monarchy in Norman England, due to a nifty legal loophole and an ancient Norman Conquest Charter.
A set of chronicles in which the King suffers visits from the two mincing actors, Short and Curly: Lorenz Lawne-Bowlyngge, the flamboyant interior designer: Dr Misaubin, the travelling apothecary and snake-oil man: the misguided owner of a henge-building franchise: a bunch of Notaries from the law firm of Minge Minge Crap-hound Spiv & Minge: Tull, the inventor of the Gardeners Claw: a money-grabbing Water-diviner: an itinerant Tiler: a bunch of homicidal German mercenaries: Joey Pantolooni, the leader of the worst circus on the planet, and many more, and we meet Griswolde Pauncefoote, the worst musician in the world: his brother, the Black Knight: Rijk Van Dyjke, the Flemish ice sculptor: Max Hispano-Suiza, carriage builder and second-hand cart dealer: Leonardo Van Tableaux, the hack tabloid painter: Archer, the longbow-man prepared to commit perjury on the King’s behalf: Dr Placebo-Ganglion, the castle physician: Blacques Jacques à t’Acques, the “French” pirate captain: Robin Hood: The Assassin Astreau-Turphe & Henry II (real King).
Our window into this murky medieval world is through the medium of Prang’s Journal, a scruffy assemblage of parchment sheets loosely bound in a ratty piece of second-hand vellum, that has survived the ravages of the centuries against all odds. Prang’s daily entries however are somewhat economical with the truth to put it mildly, tending to gloss over his faux pas in his dealings with the King and even omitting some of the worst episodes altogether. Fortunately for the sake of history we are able to assemble the true events behind these woefully sketchy diary entries from various recently-discovered contemporary writings which, unfortunately from Prang’s viewpoint, put the record straight.
Here, for the first time together, are extracts from Wizard Prang’s Journal, a chronicler clearly not in the same class as Samuel Pepys, together with the true catastrophic events behind each entry. [more]
Keywords: History, magic, wizard, knight, Plantagenet, Norman Conquest, comedy, dragon, spells, pratfalls, plague, armour, castle, medieval
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