A Sherlock Holmes Case in English and French
Lord Robert St. Simon marries a rich young American at a quiet London church. A few hours later, at the wedding breakfast, the bride walks out and is not seen again. The police drag the Serpentine; Sherlock Holmes thinks he knows the answer before the evening is out.
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 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 1,241 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 light, short Holmes case to read to the end.
Details
- Arthur Conan Doyle, French translation anonymous (Flammarion, 1913)
- French-English edition, 2026, about 66 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
