Jacques Barzun
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"In the swirling fog of Victorian London, armed only with his genius for disguise and brilliant deduction, Sherlock Holmes, the legendary detective, sets out to solve some of his most fiendish cases and foil the arch-criminal Moriarty. He and his partner Dr. Watson embark on some of the most famous problems of their career in this, the first classic collection of his amazing adventures."--page 2 of cover.
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Ship's surgeon Lemuel Gulliver is stranded on the island of Lilliput after his boat founders. In the first of many weird and wonderful adventures he meets a diminutive people prepared to wage war over the correct way to crack an egg. The castaway also visits a land full of giants, with wasps the size of partridges; a floating island where the best brains are engaged in trying to extract sunshine from cucumbers; and a land of civilized, rational-minded...