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Cuentos De Misterio / Tales of Mystery

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El autor conocido por su serie de Sherlock Holmes es también un maestro del cuento. En los siete cuentos incluidos en la presente selección, el autor nos vuelve a demostrar su magistral talento narrativo.

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 30, 2004

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Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

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March 28, 2015
De Conan Doyle, sabia que tinha um volume de FC na colecção Argonauta, que nunca li, pelo que desconhecia tudo para além do referente ao famoso inquilino do 221B, Baker St.
Encontram-se nestes contos os deliciosos elementos da prosa oitocentista vitoriana, aqui já um pouco mais tardia e 'pensada'... o orientalismo, o aparato da ciência, o fascínio pelo oculto, os horrores que a mente pode camuflar ou desvelar, mas também, o que para mim foi uma surpresa, a espaços também vemos num ou noutro conto um humor muito próprio, quer o humor negro puro e tipicamente inglês como num episódio de Hichcock apresenta, quer o humor jocoso e descontrutivo que poderia inspirar um sketch de Monty Python.
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