A Sherlock Holmes Case in French and English
A London pawnbroker with flaming red hair answers an odd advertisement. The League of Red-Headed Men pays him well to copy out the encyclopedia by hand, four hours a day. Then one morning the League is gone, and Sherlock Holmes wants to know who wanted him out of his shop.
The French text is the translation by Jeanne de Polignac, matched to Arthur Conan Doyle's English sentence by sentence. Her 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 two 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 1,537 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 story with a plot that keeps them reading to the end.
Details
- Arthur Conan Doyle, translated by Jeanne de Polignac
- French-English edition, 2026, about 74 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)
- Publisher: M.U.W. Edu Media & Publishing Ltd. (MostUsedWords)
- 30-day money-back guarantee
