https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks Arthur Conan Doyle en-us 2022-04-11 12:46:50 UTC 2025-12-08 23:21:07 UTC hello@padlet.com linasmolova1 https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139100136 Title of the book: "A Study In Scarlet" Author: Arthur Conan Doyle
Year of publishing: 1887
Genre: Detective novel
Historical context: The novel is set in the late 19th century, at a time when British imperialism was at its height and when an ideology of manifest destiny and the California gold rush motivated American pioneers to continue the westward expansion of the United States.

]]> 2022-04-11 12:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139100136 linasmolova1 https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139105012 Conan Doyle is most famous as the inventor of Sherlock Holmes, but he had a varied career as a writer, journalist and public figure.
Arthur Conan Doyle was born on 22 May 1859 in Edinburgh into a prosperous Irish family. He trained as a doctor, gaining his degree from Edinburgh University in 1881.
Arthur Conan Doyle is best known for the 60 stories he wrote about Sherlock Holmes. His body of work includes nearly 200 novels, short stories, poems, historical books and pamphlets.
Sherlock Holmes made his first appearance in 'A Study of Scarlet', published in 'Beeton's Christmas Annual' in 1887. 
In later life he became very interested in spiritualism.
Conan Doyle died of a heart attack on 7 July 1930.]]> 2022-04-11 12:55:57 UTC https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139105012 linasmolova1 https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139126284 Sherlock:  "He is a little queer in his ideas—an enthusiast in some branches of science. As far as I know he is a decent fellow enough."
 "He is a first-class chemist."
 "He is not a man that it is easy to draw out, though he can be communicative enough when the fancy seizes him.”
 "Holmes is a little too scientific for my tastes—it approaches to coldbloodedness. "
"He appears to have a passion for definite and exact knowledge.”
"He was quiet in his ways, and his habits were regular."'
 "It was rare for him to be up after ten at
night, and he had invariably breakfasted and gone out before I rose in the morning."
"His very person and appearance were such as to strike the attention of the most
casual observer."
"His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I
have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision."
"His hands were invariably blotted with ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragile philosophical instruments."
Dr.Watson: "I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London ."
" I was duly attached to the Fifth Northumberland Fusiliers as Assistant Surgeon. "
" I had neither kith nor kin in England."
" Choosing the latter alternative, I began by making up my mind to leave the hotel, and to take up my quarters in some less pretentious and less expensive domicile. "
 “You are as thin as a lath and as brown as a nut.”

]]> 2022-04-11 13:10:32 UTC https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139126284 linasmolova1 https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139153058 In the year 1878 Dr.Watson takes his degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London. Then he proceedes to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the army. After being kicked from his first brigade, Watson is attached to the Berkshires, where he gets struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. Despite dangerous situation, Ghazis saves his life. After his recovery he is sent back to England. He is broke, so he decides to find a roommate to pay less for rent. Suddenly he meets his acquaintance, who says that one person is searching for a roommate too, but describes him like an extraordinary personality, and offers Dr. Watson to meet him. Dr. Watson meets Sherlock Holmes at the hospital, where Sherlock is working with chemicals. And finally, they decide to live together.]]> 2022-04-11 13:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139153058 linasmolova1 https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139164162 Chapter 1:
As I already have watched serial about Sherlock Holmes, I know what will happen later. Step by step, they will know each other better. It will help them while solve a regular crime. They will be, probably, friends, because during their adventures, Sherlock will reveal himself more to Watson as a person.
Chapter 2:
I'm waiting for some crime, so I hope that in the next chapter something curious will happen. Perhaps we will met new characters, new events and so on.
Chapter 3: 
Unfortunately, we have got not enough information from those three chapters. Especially when the first crime was a bit described in the third chapter. As I understood, the 40 years old man was killed in his own house and policemen were baffled, because they had no accurate evidence to find and arrest the criminal. One of the governmental detectives found a ring on the floor, where was written a german word «revenge». He announced his thoughts about it. His hypothesis was about a woman that might committed crime out of jealousy. However, Sherlock, upon leaving the house, disproved this theory and told Watson that it was a man, describing him clearly. So, my personal hypothesis is that the man, who murdered the owner of the house, could kill him because of another woman. 

]]> 2022-04-11 13:32:22 UTC https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139164162 linasmolova1 https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139164794 Chapter 1:
dully attached -  должным образом прикрепленный;
convalescent - выздоравливающий;
domicile - резиденция;
desultory - несвязный;
malevolence - недоброжелательность;
eagerness - рвение;
dobble with poisons - баловаться ядами;
go halves with you - напополам; 
pecularity - особенность;
neither kith nor kin - ничего нет;
as thin as a lath - тощий;
as brown as a nut - загоревший;
cried - прокричал;

Chapter 2:
to seize- воспользоваться;
alluded - намекал;
endeavoured- старался;
reticence- сдержанный;
zeal - энтузиазм;
ample - обширный;
seldom - редко;
nil - ничего;
feeble - немощный;
profound - глубокий;
immense - колоссальный;
sallow  - болезненный;
shrewdness - проницательность;
to fathom - вникать;

Chapter 3:
to dazzle(someone) - ослеплять;
no time for trifles - нет времени для мелочей;
the whole affair is a puzzler - все дело - это загадка;
the pick of a bad lot - плохой выбор;
incurably lazy - ужасно ленивый;
in the best of spirits - в прекрасном настроении;
an air of nonchalance - атмосфера беззаботности;
utter an exclamation of satisfaction - издать возглас удовлетворения;
no doubt - без сомнения; 
glance at someone - взглянуть на кого-то;
raised his eyebrows sardonically - саркастично приподнял брови;
subdued feeling - подавленное чувство;
malignant contortion - болезненнотворное искривление;


]]> 2022-04-11 13:32:46 UTC https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2139164794 linasmolova1 https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2140440575 The next day Sherlock and Dr.Watson met to look their future apartament in Baker Street 221-B. They like it, so Sherlock decides to move out the same evening. Living with Sherlock several days, Watson starts to know the detective more. He points out his habbits, qualities, behavioral features. Then they start discussing about importance of knowledge. Sherlock thinks that people often are troubling themselves with useless stuff. He starts to list his possibilities in different spheres of science and also points out that he is a good violin player. After certain period Watson notices that Sherlock has many clients from different social circles. One day Watson wakes up earlier then Shelock and sees it absurd, on his opinion, article and when Sherlock wakes up, Dr. Watson finds out that it was written by his roommate indeed.]]> 2022-04-12 07:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/linasmolova1/Bookmarks/wish/2140440575