A Sherlock Holmes Case in English and French
The King of Bohemia is about to marry, and one photograph could ruin it: a picture of him with the singer Irene Adler. He wants it back, and Sherlock Holmes sets out in disguise to find it. This is the case of the woman who outwitted him.
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 1,450 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, famous mystery they can finish.
Details
- Arthur Conan Doyle, French translation anonymous (Flammarion, 1913)
- 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)
- 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
