David Stuart Davies Bücher

Sherlock Holmes' Schöpfer hatte ihn 1893 eigentlich sterben lassen wollen, doch auf Drängen seiner überwältigend grossen Leserschaft liess Doyle den Meister des kriminalistischen Gespürs mit der untrüglichen Kombinationsgabe wiederauferstehen, um den seltsamen Ereignissen im düsteren Dartmoor auf den Grund zu gehen. 'Der Hund von Baskerville' erschien 1902 als Buchausgabe und wurde ein fulminanter Erfolg.

Eine hochwertige Ausgabe der Originalübersetzung im Geschenkbuchformat, mit den Illustrationen Antoine de Saint-Exupérys. „Es ist nun schon sechs Jahre her, dass mein Freund mit seinem Schaf davongegangen ist. Wenn ich hier versuche, ihn zu beschreiben, so tue ich das, um ihn nicht zu vergessen. Es ist traurig, einen Freund zu vergessen. Nicht jeder hat einen Freund gehabt. Und ich könnte wie die großen Leute werden, die sich nur für Ziffern interessieren, deshalb habe ich mir schließlich auch einen Farbenkasten und Zeichenstifte gekauft.“

Das gefleckte Band Ein Skandal in Böhmen Seine Abschiedsvorstellung Das letzte Problem Der griechische Dolmetscher Das leere HausEnglish The Adventure of the Speckled BandA Scandal in BohemiaHis Last BowThe Final ProblemThe Adventure of the Greek InterpreterThe Adventure of the Empty House

The Sherlock Holmes Book chronicles every case of the world's greatest detective and his assistant Dr Watson. The game is afoot and now you can discover every detail of Sherlock Holmes' world

In a town filled with suffering and poverty, a swallow left behind by his flock encounters the statue of the Happy Prince, who has never known true sorrow, having lived in a palace where pain is absent. Observing the hardships faced by the townspeople from his lofty perch, the Happy Prince implores the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the gold leaf that adorns him to aid the poor. As winter descends and the Happy Prince is stripped of his beauty, his heart, made of lead, shatters when the swallow dies from the cold after selflessly helping others. The statue is ultimately removed and melted down, leaving behind the broken heart and the lifeless swallow, which are discarded. However, an angel recognizes their worth and carries them to heaven, where they are deemed the most precious treasures of the city, affirmed by God, and they find eternal life in His city of gold and paradise garden.

Colonel Sapt travels to England on a secret mission to prevent anarchy in Ruritania by enlisting Rudolf Rassendyll to impersonate the King during his recovery from illness. However, Rassendyll has mysteriously vanished.

A collection of stories featuring detectives, criminal agents and debonair crooks from the golden age of crime fiction: a time when Sherlock Holmes was esconsced in his rooms at 221B Baker Street and London was permanently wreathed in a sinister fog.

This book explores the captivating and eerie world of vampires through a collection of stories, featuring both well-known and lesser-known tales.

Includes short stories: Best Ghost Stories, Best Fairy Stories, Celtic Fairy Tales and Tales of the Macabre. This new collection of detective stories of the golden age includes intriguing tales by Edgar Allan Poe, Edgar Wallace, G K Chesterton, 'Sapper', E W Hornung, and Arnold Bennett.

New York zur Zeit der Roaring Twenties: Gewinner und Verlierer der New Yorker Gesellschaft gleichermaSSen tummeln sich jeden Sommer auf den rauschenden Tanzparties des jungen Selfmade-Millionars Jay Gatsby. DEr zwielichtige Geschaftsmann aus mittellosen Verhaltnissen mochte aber eigentlich nur eines: als "Great Gatsby" seine aus einer vermogenden Familie stammende Jugendliebe Daisy zuruckgewinnen. DIese ist allerdings inzwischen verheiratet ... F. SCott Fitzgeralds 1925 verfasster Roman gilt als Meisterwerk der amerikanischen Literatur des 20. JAhrhunderts. ER ist zugleich ergreifende Liebesgeschichte und ausdrucksstarkes Bild der amerikanischen Gesellschaft des Jazz Age. VOr allem aber ist The Great Gatsby ein Roman uber den American Dream, den die Schulerinnen und Schuler in seinen verschiedenen Facetten nachempfinden konnen. Fitzgeralds Roman ist geeignet als Schullekture in den Jahrgangsstufen 11 und 12. DIe Textausgabe ist umfassend annotiert und mit lesebegleitenden while-reading-Aufgaben versehen. Zu dieser Textausgabe ist folgendes Unterrichtsmodell erschienen: Schoningh, Bestell-Nr.: 041191

This collection features a set of wide ranging and mind expanding tales created by the founding fathers of this most fascinating and exciting of literary genres.

Short Stories from the Nineteenth Century is a wonderful collection of classic stories specially selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies. These are tales from the golden age of the great storytellers presenting evocative snapshots from that bygone era while at the same time providing engaging entertainment and stimulation for the modern reader. schovat popis

Dickens' natural inclinations toward drama and the macabre made him a brilliant teller of ghost tales, and in the twenty stories presented here, which include his celebrated "A Christmas Carol", the full range of his gothic talents can be seen

Over the centuries Ireland has preserved a magical, mystical aura that lends itself to tales of the supernatural-from leprechauns and fairies to ghosts and hauntings. Stories and storytelling have always been central to Irish folk culture, and this anthology of the best ghost stories from Ireland and Irish writers includes contributions from Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Patrick Kennedy, George Moore, and W. B. Yeats. The result is a collection of tingling tales of poltergeists, supernatural experiences, haunted houses, death warnings, and banshees that will chill the blood of readers and listeners alike.

An intriguing collection of baffling mysteries from such masters as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and G. K. Chesterton.

Prepare to be shocked. This novel, written in 1796, is a Gothic festival of sex, magic and ghastly, ghostly violence rarely seen in literature. The Monk is remarkably modern in style and tells a breathless tale of temptation, imprisonment and betrayal. Matthew Lewis recounts the downfall of Ambrosio, the holier-than-thou monk seduced within the walls of a Madrid abbey until he heads for the utter corruption of the soul. Meanwhile, two sets of young lovers are thwarted and the reader thrills to pursuits through the woods by bandits and is chilled by the spectre of nuns imprisoned in vermin-ridden and skeleton-crowded vaults. Late Eighteenth Century audiences were polarised in opinion as to the novel's merits. Lord Byron and the Marquis de Sade were impressed by Lewis's daring, while Coleridge warned parents against The Monk's suitability for their sons or daughters, describing the novel as 'poison for youth. If you want a novel that still terrifies, over two hundred years after it was written, there is none finer than The Monk.

A collection of early Mummy stories that contributed to the emergence of the Dead returning to life as a horror fiction sub-genre, selected and introduced by David Stuart Davies.

Moving, his candle was instantly extinguished, and in the very moment of being left in the darkness he saw, standing in the doorway, a woman, resembling her who had haunted his dream overnight. He rushed with outstretched hands to seize her, but clutched only air. Night Shivers presents a treasure trove of the stories of Mrs J. H. Riddell, one of the greatest Victorian writers of ghost stories. These tales, many of which have been out of print for years, take the reader on fearful journeys into the gloomy haunts of old neglected houses, into a world of prophetic dreams, out onto the wild terrain of Ireland to encounter a frightful banshee and even down into Hell itself. In these fourteen short stories and one novella, The Uninhabited House, there is the distillation of the best and most effective of Riddell s spine-tingling supernatural fiction.

Murderous ghosts, horrific curses and monstrous beings haunt an unforgiving landscape into which travellers stray at their peril. Journey through the dark byways of Australia's Gothic past in the rare stories gathered in this memorable new collection. Work by acclaimed Australian writers such as Marcus Clarke, Henry Lawson and Edward Dyson appears alongside many lesser-known authors such as Beatrice Grimshaw, Mary Fortune and Ernest Favenc. Many of the stories collected here have never been reprinted since their first publication in 19th and early 20th century periodicals and showcase the richness and variety of the Australian ghost and horror story.James Doig provides an authoritative introduction full of fresh insights into Australian Gothic fiction with detailed biographical notes on the authors represented.

'...the hand was writhing in agonized contortions, squirming and wriggling upon the nail like a worm upon a hook. 'We'll keep it there until it dies, ' he said. 'May I burn in hell, if I ever open the door of that safe again.' The brilliant and scary The Beast with Five Fingers, is the first entry in this mammoth collection of strange and chilling short stories by W.F. Harvey, an unjustly neglected author of supernatural tales. This unique volume demonstrates clearly that Harvey is one of the masters of the genre. Along with such classics as August Heat, which concerns two strangers whose individual fates become inextricably entwined in a nightmare scenario and the gruesome school yarn, The Dabblers, you will find such minor masterpieces of the uncanny as The Man Who Hated Aspidistras, Sarah Bennet's Possession, The Habeas Corpus Club and many more stories which refreshingly avoid the cliche while at the same time creating that wonderfully eerie sense of fear.

Píše se rok 1880 a mladý excentrik Holmes teprve začíná s praxí detektivního konzultanta. Jeho zvláštní nadání a první kroky však neuniknou pozornosti jiné postavy, o níž veřejnost zatím také nic netuší, profesora Moriartyho. V téže době, na druhém konci světa, si jiný muž, jakýsi doktor Walker, sahá až na dno své dosavadní existence, aby se stal obětí i nástrojem zlovolných manipulací. Setkání obou mužů je neodvratné, není však dílem osudu, ale součástí rafinovaného plánu Napoleona zločinu. Profesor Moriarty se nám tak konečně představuje v plném lesku. A paní Hudsonová? A Mycroft Holmes? Jak se ke svému zděšení a úžasu dovídáme, již od dob Studia v šarlatové, Podpisu čtyř a Řeckého tlumočníka bylo všechno jinak, což jako dokonalý tour de force prokáže skutečná verze hororu Poslední případ.