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"Архив Шерлока Холмса" (1921-1927) – последний сборник рассказов Дойля о знаменитом сыщике. За семь лет совместного существования Холмс начал тяготить Дойля. В 1893 году в рассказе «Последнее дело Холмса» автор пытался покончить со своим героем, предав его смерти. Поклонники сыщика, чей интерес только возрастал, были возмущены. Волею судеб в 1901 году Дойль услышал легенды о гигантской собаке-привидении, а так как выдумывать нового героя было ни к чему, он воскресил Холмса, чтобы уже не расставаться с ним до конца своих дней. Так жизнь сыщика растянулась на два сборника рассказов: последовал сборник «Возвращение Шерлока Холмса», а за ним – «Архив Шерлока Холмса». Читает молодой американский актер Бенджамин Сарджент на английском языке.

A hilarious and cutting critique of what not to do, this deliciously wicked essay lays out what writers should and must do if they want their fiction to live and breathe ? as Twain's own fiction always does. In "How to Tell a Story," the title piece, Twain takes on such mysteries as the perfectly-timed pause and the uses of the dead-pan mask, and candidly describes his own efforts to hone his platform skills.

The letters of Mark Twain are peculiarly of the revealing sort. He was a man of few restraints and of no affectations. In his correspondence, as in his talk, he spoke what was in his mind, untrammeled by literary conventions.

Exercises in Loneliness is a collection of philosophical essays on a common topic of solitude that started as a series of blog posts. “There is something romantic and legendary about loneliness because every knight searches for the Holy Grail on his own. Even the best fairytales are born out of an extreme loneliness. So the secret is to stop asking to be saved and to start saving others. Before long you will see how your own loneliness subsides – like a tide that runs away with sunrise”.

"What is Man?" was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of it as such to friends when he read them passages. He had written it, rewritten it, was finally satisfied with it, but still chose not to release it until after his death. It appears in the form of a dialogue between an old man and a young man who discuss who and what mankind really is and provides a new and different way of looking at who we are and the way we live. Anyone who thinks Twain was not a brilliant philosopher should read this book.