{"product_id":"the-engineers-thumb-le-pouce-de-lingenieur","title":"The Engineer's Thumb - Le Pouce de l'ingénieur","description":"\u003ch2\u003eA Sherlock Holmes Case in English and French\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat's in the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe full story\u003c\/strong\u003e, 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA Book Frequency Dictionary\u003c\/strong\u003e 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.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLearners with some French who want a short, tense story that keeps them reading.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eArthur Conan Doyle, French translation anonymous (Flammarion, 1913)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFrench-English edition, 2026, about 64 pages (6 x 9 inch PDF)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eE-book: EPUB, plus a PDF in two page sizes (6 x 9 and 5.5 x 8.5 inch)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne passage missing from the translation was filled by machine translation and reviewed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: M.U.W. Edu Media \u0026amp; Publishing Ltd. (MostUsedWords)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e30-day money-back guarantee\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MostUsedWords","offers":[{"title":"E-book (PDF + EPUB)","offer_id":59475286262095,"sku":"FR-EN-ENGINEERS-THUMB-EBOOK","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/5266\/1090\/files\/engineers_thumb_fr_ebook_3000.jpg?v=1794448065","url":"https:\/\/mostusedwords.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-engineers-thumb-le-pouce-de-lingenieur","provider":"MostUsedWords","version":"1.0","type":"link"}