Buku ini ditulis oleh salah satu penulis terkenal Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Banyak kasus yang telah terpercahkan dalam teka-teki di buku seri Sherlock Holmes.
‘My name is Sherlock Holmes. it is my business to know what other people don't know.’ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes first introduced Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant detective the readers of The Strand Magazine. In these twenty three tales, collected here in one volume, you have some of the best detective yarns ever penned. In his consulting room at 221B Baker Street, the master sleuth…
An alternate cover edition of this ISBN can be found here. When Lemuel Gulliver sets off from London on a sea voyage, little does he know the many incredible misadventures awaiting. Shipwrecked at sea, nearly drowned, he washes ashore upon an exotic island called Liliput--where the people are only 6" tall. Next he visits a land of incredible giants called the Brobdingnagians. They are more t…
Hercule Poirot merasa kesal dan jemu. Kematian sama sekali bukan hal yang menyenangkan. Tapi di sini mereka malah menggodanya dengan menyajikan suatu adegan pembunuhan. Di tepi kolam, sesosok tubuh digeletakkan secara artistik, lengannya terentang. Bahkan ada cat merah menetes-netes. Sosok itu sangat tampan. Beberapa orang berdiri mengelilinginya dalam pose-pose yang aneh. Semuanya sangat tidak…
Tertahan salju di Pegunungan Balkan, para penumpang Kereta Api Orient Express dikejutkan oleh berita mengguncangkan bahwa salah seorang dari mereka telah dibunuh secara keji pada malam sebelumnya. Dihadapkan pada masalah yang harus ditangani lebih cepat daripada langkah kaki si pembunuh dalam usahanya untuk menyelamatkan diri, Poirot tak mempunyai waktu lagi untuk berdiam diri.
Robin Hood is the best-loved outlaw of all time. In this edition, Henry Gilbert tells of the adventures of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest - Robin himself, Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Alan-a-Dale, as well as Maid Marian, good King Richard, and Robin's deadly enemies Guy of Gisborne and the evil Sheriff of Nottingham.
Sherlock Holmes's fearless chronicler Dr Watson once again opens his notebooks to bring to light eight further tales of some of the strangest and most fascinating cases to come before the enquiring mind of London's most famous detective. These mysteries involve the disappearance of secret plans as well as of a lady of noble standing; the curious circumstances of Wisteria Lodge and of the Dev…
"One of the most delightful and enduring classics of children's literature, The Secret Garden by Victorian author Frances Hodgson Burnett has remained a firm favorite with children the world over ever since it made its first appearance. Initially published as a serial story in 1910 in The American Magazine, it was brought out in novel form in 1911. The plot centers round Mary Lennox, a youn…
This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.
"You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear."