Name: A Study in Scarlet (Shavian alphabet edition) (in English)
Price: 7.95 USD
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Author: Doyle, Arthur Conan
ISBN: 9780648570516

portada A Study in Scarlet (Shavian alphabet edition) (in English)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Arthur Conan Doyle

Publisher

Shavian.Info

Language

English

Pages

126

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.8 x 0.7 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN13

9780648570516

Synopsis "A Study in Scarlet (Shavian alphabet edition) (in English)"

"There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it". So said Sherlock Holmes in A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel that first introduced the legendary detective to the world. Now, for the first time, you can unravel that scarlet thread in the Shavian alphabet. The Shavian alphabet takes its name from Irish writer Bernard Shaw who inspired and posthumously funded it. Shaw believed there should be a simpler way to write English. His wish was fulfilled in 1962 following a worldwide competition. The result was an alphabet designed especially for English, with a unique letter for each of the 40 or so basic sounds we all use today. Whether you view this book as a linguistic curiosity, an eccentric experiment, or as inspiration to explore the possibilities of spelling reform, it shows one thing: the logic of English orthography does not have to remain a mystery worthy of the great detective.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (UK 1859-1930) Escritor y médico nacido en Escocia, principalmente conocido por haber creado al famosísimo personaje Sherlock Holmes, el detective más conocido de todos los tiempos, versionado para TV y cine de forma cíclica. Otra gran serie de novelas confeccionadas por Doyle fueron las protagonizadas por el profesor Challenger (El Mundo Perdido), también trasladadas a la ficción audiovisual.

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