What are you looking for at Aqrani library?
Hound of the Baskervilles
- Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
- Mystery
Summary: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thought he had finished forever with his immortal sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his chronicler, Dr Watson. Exhausted and bored with the Holmes saga, he wanted to turn to more serious writing. In the short story The Final Problem, published in 1893 as part of the collection The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, the author had sent Holmes plunging to his doom into the Reichenbach Falls. However, by 1901, Doyle found himself in severe financial difficulties. It was then that he resurrected his popular detective. The Hound of the Baskervilles is set in time before the Reichenbach and as the publishers had predicted, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle once again struck gold! The Hound of the Baskervilles is thrilling, tightly-plotted and full of atmosphere. Set in the misty and sinister landscape of Dartmoor, it was inspired by the true story of a wicked 17th century Squire who lived in the West Country. Tales of the man's villainous ways were whispered about and when he finally died, his evil spirit continued to roam the moors, leading a pack of supernatural hounds who were often seen at his tomb!
- Format: ebook
- Language : english
- Category : Mystery
Popular Books
-
النبي
Author: جبران خليل جبران
ترجمة أنطونيوس بشير حين يكتب «جبران» عن نبيِّه تتجسَّد القِيَم والمعاني الإنسانية التي تسمو بنفسها على أيِّ دينٍ أو عِرقٍ أو لون؛ إنها الإنسانية في أبهى صورها. لا شكَّ أن كتاب «النبي» هو دُرَّةُ ما كتبه «جبران خليل جبران»، وخلاصةُ ما توصَّلَ إليه، وعصارةُ تجارِبه الذاتية ونظرته الحياتية؛ فقد ضمَّنَه كلَّ آرائه في الحياةِ والموت، الطعامِ والشراب، الحبِّ والزواج، وغيرها؛ لذا فقد اعتبره جبران «ولادتَه الثانية» التي ظلَّ ينتظرها ألف عام. ويسرد جبران آراءَه على لسان الحكيم «المصطفى» الذي ظلَّ بعيدًا عن وطنه اثني عشر عامًا، وعاش بين سكان جزيرة «أورفاليس» كواحدٍ منهم، منتظرًا عودته إلى مسقط رأسه. وحينما ترسو السفينة ويحين موعدُ رحيله يرجوه سكانُ الجزيرة أن يخطب فيهم؛ فكانت خطبةُ الوداع التي لخَّصَ فيها مذهبه. لقد نجح جبران في كتابه في أن يتجاوز حدودَ ديانته، ليُرسيَ دعائمَ إنسانية تحترم الإنسانَ لكونه إنسانًا لا لأيِّ عاملٍ آخر.
-
La puissance de votre subconscient
Author: Dr Joseph Murphy
Voici un des livres de croissance personnelle les plus célèbres de tous les temps. La puissance de votre subconscient a aidé des millions de personnes à atteindre des objectifs remarquables en les invitant tout simplement à transformer leur façon de penser. Cette édition revue et augmentée est émaillée de commentaires tirés de textes inédits du Dr Murphy. L’auteur y explique comment utiliser la dynamique de l’esprit afin d’aider chacun à franchir les obstacles subconscients qui se dressent entre soi et le succès que chacun désire et mérite.
-
Burnett Seth
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Seth" is a deeply moving short story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the author of many beloved childhood classics, including Little Lord Fauntleroy, The Secret Garden and A Little Princess. A young Englishman walks into a down-on-its-luck Tennessee mining town, and at first the locals are reluctant to accept him. But before long, Seth's selflessness has made him an important part of the community.
-
A Tramp Abroad
Author: Mark Twain
A Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris (a character created for the book, and based on his closest friend, Joseph Twichell), through central and southern Europe. While the stated goal of the journey is to walk most of the way, the men find themselves using other forms of transport as they traverse the continent. The book is often thought to be an unofficial sequel to an earlier Twain travel book,The Innocents Abroad. As the two men make their way through Germany, the Alps, and Italy, they encounter situations made all the more humorous by their reactions to them. The narrator (Twain) plays the part of the American tourist of the time, believing that he understands all that he sees, but in reality understanding none of it. The term “tramp” is meant as in a “walk-about” and not as in a “bum”.
-
A Christmas Carol
Author: Charles Dickens
“A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, biting, clutching, covetous old sinner” is hardly hero material, but this is exactly what makes A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens such an unforgettable book and its hero, Ebenezer Scrooge such an extraordinarily enduring character. In the book's celebrated opening scene, on the night before Christmas the old miser Ebenezer Scrooge sits in his freezing cold counting house, oblivious to the discomfort of his shivering young assistant Bob Cratchit. Scrooge is unremittingly rude to relatives and visitors alike who drop in to convey their Christmas greetings or ask for a contribution to charity. Scrooge returns to his equally chilly mansion where he has an extraordinary supernatural experience. The spirit of his dead partner, Marley appears recounting tales of eternal suffering that he is condemned to endure because of the mean and uncharitable deeds that Marley did when he was alive. Marley informs Scrooge that three other supernatural visitors will make their appearance over the next three nights. The rest of the book traces the events that happen when these three otherworldly beings visit Scrooge.
-
Great Expectations
Author: Charles Dickens
From the opening passage itself of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, the reader is drawn into the world of the hero, Pip, who is at that time, seven years old. The author creates an unforgettable atmosphere: the gloom of the graveyard, the melancholy of the orphan boy, the mists rising over the marshes and the terrifying appearance of an escaped convict in chains. Told in first person (one of the only two books that Dickens used this form for, the other being David Copperfield) Great Expectations is a classic coming of age novel, in which we trace the growth and evolution of Pip or Philip Pirrip to give his full name. Pip has lost his parents very early in life and is being brought up by his much older sister and brother-in-law Joe Gargery. His sister is a dominating and shrewish woman, while Joe is an affectionate man. Joe's uncle Mr Pumblechook (another of Dickens' delightfully evocative names) asks Joe to send Pip to the stately mansion Statis House ostensibly to play with the owner Miss Havisham's adopted daughter Estella. This marks the beginning of a life-changing experience for Pip.
-
10 contes de loups
Author: Jean-François Bladé
En ce temps-là les bêtes parlaient. Voici 10 contes du beau pays gascon. Le Loup, la Chèvre, le Renard vivent ensemble dans les bois. Il vont à la foire avec les paysans. Tout ce monde ne s'entend pas toujours très bien. Le Renard est cruel, mais il sera puni. Quant au Loup, il est trop bête, tant pis pour lui ! Les gentils petits animaux, le Chat, la Poulette, l'Oie et même le Limaçon réussissent bien mieux leurs affaires.
-
les trois mousquetaires - tome I
Author: Alexandre Dumas
Dumas séduit, fascine, intéresse, amuse, enseigne. - Victor Hugo. - Tout le monde connaît la verve prodigieuse de M. Dumas, son entrain facile, son bonheur de mise en scène, son dialogue spirituel et toujours en mouvement, ce récit léger qui court sans cesse et qui sait enlever l'obstacle et l'espace sans jamais faiblir. Il couvre d'immenses toiles sans jamais fatiguer ni son pinceau, ni son lecteur. - Sainte-Beuve. - Les Trois Mousquetaires... notre seule épopée depuis le Moyen Age. - Roger Nimier. - Les Trois Mousquetaires forment le plus divertissant des romans d'aventures. Leurs personnages, Athos, Porthos, Aramis et d'Artagnan sont sortis des bibliothèques pour descendre dans la rue. Ils ont enseigné l'insolence et l'amitié à beaucoup de jeunes Français qui ont aussi découvert les fatalités de l'amour en rêvant aux belles épaules de Milady et à ses regards de perdition. - Kleber Haedens.
-
أبو العلاء
Author: عباس محمود العقاد
حاز «أبو العلاء المعري» مكانةً كبرى وسط شعراء العرب؛ حيث حملت أبيات شعره فلسفتَه في الحياة، كما كان صاحب آراء مثيرة للجدل في قضايا دينية واجتماعية. وصحيح أن المعري قد حبسه العمى عن الإبصار إلا أنه كان حادَّ البصيرة، فكان مُحبًّا للعلم متوقِّد الذهن وُهِب قوًى كبيرة للحفظ بشكل لفت الأنظار، وقد أحاطت حياتَه الكثيرُ من الألغاز والأسرار، حيث حكى الكثيرون قصصًا غريبة عن قدراته وحضور ذهنه واعتبروها فلتةً غير مفهومة من الطبيعة؛ فكثر حساده وكذلك معجبوه. وهذا الكتاب يقدم رحلة تصوَّرها العقاد يعود فيها المعري للحياة من الموت فيطَّلع على أحوالنا وحياتنا مُبديًا رأيه فيما يرى من تغيرات وأفكار وتطورات.
-
أحاديث روسية
Author: الياس انطون
لا يكاد التراث الشعبي لأيِّ أمة يخلو من القصص والمأثورات التي تعكس قِيَم المجتمع وفلسفته وتُبْرِزُ هُوَيَّتَهُ، كما أن هذه الحكايات المُسَلِّيَة هي إحدى أهم الأساليب، التي تتناقل بها الأجيالُ المعرفةَ ويَبُثُّ الأجدادُ فضائلَ السلوك في الأحفاد بشكل سهل مُبَسَّط؛ فأحيانًا ما تكون قصصًا خيالية قصيرة، شُخُوصها هي حيوانات عاقلة متكلمة (كما في «قصص كليلة ودمنة» الشهيرة و«حكايات أيسوب») أو بين البشر وبعضهم، وقد انتقى الأديب الروسي الساخر «إيفان كريلوف» بعضًا من الحكايات الشعبية الروسية الشهيرة ذات المغزى الفلسفي والأخلاقي ليُقَدِّمها في هذا الكتاب الذي عَرَّبَ مادَّتَه اللبنانيُّ «إلياس أنطون»، بحيث تكون قريبةً ومألوفة لِذَوْق القارئ العربي.