A Sherlock Holmes Case in English and French
A young hydraulic engineer is offered fifty guineas for one night's work: a machine to look at in a house in the country, and not a word to anyone. He comes back to London at dawn with his thumb cut off and a story Sherlock Holmes takes very seriously.
The French text is an anonymous translation first published by Flammarion in 1913, matched to Arthur Conan Doyle's English sentence by sentence. The translator's words are kept; only the spelling and grammar were brought up to today's rules.
What's in the book
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The full story, in three parts. In the PDF each English passage is followed by its French translation. In the EPUB they sit side by side, English on the left.
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A Book Frequency Dictionary of the 1,292 French nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs in the story, most frequent first, with part of speech, IPA pronunciation and English meaning.
Who it's for
Learners with some French who want a short, tense story that keeps them reading.
Details
- Arthur Conan Doyle, French translation anonymous (Flammarion, 1913)
- French-English edition, 2026, about 64 pages (6 x 9 inch PDF)
- E-book: EPUB, plus a PDF in two page sizes (6 x 9 and 5.5 x 8.5 inch)
- One passage missing from the translation was filled by machine translation and reviewed.
- Publisher: M.U.W. Edu Media & Publishing Ltd. (MostUsedWords)
- 30-day money-back guarantee
