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Roman Blood
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Dearie: The Remarkable Life of Julia Child
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Avant-gardes du XXe siècle: arts & littérature, 1905-1930
Caesar's Commentaries: On the Gallic War and On the Civil War
Les bûchers de Bocanegra
The Songs of the Kings
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Novels and Stories: Volumes I and II
The Hobbit
The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of Four, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Valley of Fear)
I'm rereading Holmes in the original text in 2009. I've read Doyle in French translated over 20 years ago. I'm reading in order. So first in the pile is "A Study in Scarlet. Where we meet Dr. Watson, Holmes, how they came to be friends, to live at 221B Baker Street and their very first adventure in crime solving. It's the discovery from Watson's eye of an amazing individual, with its quirks and faults. The hero worship from Watson, Holmes' ego all wrapped up in a well constructed plot (it does have some very big coincidences but you can't have everything) make A Study in Scarlet a nice reread. This edition had a 53 pages introduction and a 72 pages appendix full of historical notes. My kind of edition needless to say I read the introduction and checked out the notes just for fun.
