@@captain_lynn2179 On the iPhone there’s a feature called VoiceOver that speaks what’s on the screen, so you know what letter you are selecting. There’s also dictation, which does a fairly good job of transcribing your voice into text. If it’s a physical keyboard, then there bumps on the key of F and J that let you know the correct hand placement.
Also, my employer can relate: "I know very well that he could better himself and earn twice what I am able to give him. But, after all, if he is satisfied, why should I put ideas in his head?"
This was the first Sherlock Holmes story I ever read, and I just keep coming back to it! I have a vision disorder now, and these audiobooks are a way to relax and do what I used to enjoy so much but now am unable to do: read!! Thanks Mr. Wagland, you deserve a billion views!!
It has been years since I bought a copy of the complete works of Arthur Conan Doyal but I couldn't make much progress as the print is too small for my weak eyesight to tread on. Then comes this blessing in disguise and what a delight! Thank you so much.
Vegetarian restaurants in London are mentioned in Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography, 'My Experiments with Truth'. Something about him going hungry because he got late and all vegetarian restaurants were closed.
People had been traveling to the East and meeting Buddhists, I guess, and considering other ways of life. It was probably very fashionable. A lot of suffragettes were vegetarians.
I bought the entire collection of these stories in one big book for a bargain, but trying to read it on my own was overwhelming because I'm not used to British English. I follow along with these videos and it helps so much.
I actually bought the Audible collection for $70.00, but these are so much better that I don't even listen to the Audible stories. Honestly, the best narrator of British classics ever!!!!!!!
One of my five favorite stories. This one in particular, I have every spoken or acted version that I have ever been able to acquire or bookmark. Thank you for posting this.
Very clever CD distraction with the list of the businesses then mentioning the unusual (just beginning to be enlightened times) restaurant 😃 Also beautiful writing "..as different from the front of a picture to the back"/ "Oppressively respectable frock-coat" 😄
Icant sleep without the audio now. I have found a very handsome book at books a million. My son loves to read as well and said he thought about crack it open. Awesomeness
Honestly, you are the best narrator of British classics ever heard!!! Would you consider perhaps any of South Sea Stories by W. Somerset Maugham? Many of those are quite gripping and today's audience is probably unaware of them. I can see you doing a masterful job of Maugham and Kipling. Thank you so much for these. I have been reading them for more than 40 years, and now I can just listen to them back to back. It's like eating potato chips....quite addictive. Edit: you know, I think I've changed my mind. i just reread South Sea Stories....too depressing for these times; maybe just the Kipling :).
I must have listened to this particular story several dozen times by now… and I *just* made the connection between one of Holmes’ opening observations (“you have done a good deal of writing recently”) and the main mystery 😅
This is wonderful! I never could find the actual books, and I have a bad habbit, of starting books, and never finnishing them (and yet I love to write, wierd lol) but this gives me the chance, to finally learn the mysterious and amazing tales of Sherlock Holmes, and his dear friend, Watson! Thankyou, so much!♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
I you check kindle from time to time, you can find versions of the collected works of Sherlock Holmes available for free download or for one or two dollars. You can also get them as hardbound, but they tend to be expensive. Best of luck.
@@joshuaphillips8040 - you are incorrect. It is available as a paperback, generally in the five dollar range, and also in hard copy, generally in the ten to fifteen dollar range.
Astarwut - you are incorrect. It is available as a paperback, generally in the five dollar range, and also in hard copy, generally in the ten to fifteen dollar range.
@@nothankyou5524 I, too, have had problems finding the collected Sherlock Holmes stories. Even my local library only has a few. There is one collection of writings by ACD, but it includes only a few of the Holmes stories. ACD had an amazingly vivid, rich imagination. Thanks for the info, No Thankyou.
*Salem Saberhagen:* _(as Holmes)_ Hold on a moment. He pulled your hair? *Jabez Wilson:* Yes, Mr. Holmes. *Salem:* _(guffawing)_ Oh, that's a classic! Wish I'd been there! Heck, I could have Watson do it right now and then pay you for your pains! _(laughs even louder)_ "Pains!" *Watson:* _(narrating)_ Our client was so incensed that he drew himself from the chair and stared down at Holmes like a schoolmaster ready to administer the rod. *Wilson:* How about I pay Dr. Watson here to give a good tug at your tail, Mr. Holmes? Wouldn't _that_ be more amusing? *Salem:* Well, nuts to you, bub. He's my biographer. And I happen to be protected by the Humane Society. Now sit down and resume your story.
This story appeared in a classics collection for children that we had when I was growing up. I was more into animal stories, but this one delighted me with its clever scheme and endearingly dense mark.
The sentence L'homme c'est rien. L'oeuvre c'est tout' means [The individual] man is nothing. The overall work [or mankind] is everything. Hope this is useful. I had to find out and may as well share for others like me lacking the requisite French. Merci beaucoup copier et coller.
Wonderful story, wonderfully read. I did, however, pick up a mistake Conan Doyle made with regard to the timeframe of the story. At the very beginning of the story, Watson mentions that he visited Holmes in autumn. However, the date of the newspaper advertisement for the Red Headed League is April 27, which Watson comments was two months earlier. So the conversation is happening in early summer, not autumn.
1:45 _"For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself. Which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination."_ _"A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting"_ _"You did, Doctor, but nonetheless you must come round to my view for otherwise I shall keep piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right."_ Sherlock Holmes DESTROYS Dr. Watson using FACTS and LOGIC
33:27 So, basically Sherlock: So, friend, thanks for being such a help, can you meet me at 10 tonight to wrap this whole jiffy up? Watson: Of course, Homie. Anything for you, friendo. Sherlock: Thanks dude, you’re the best. Oh, also, don’t forget to bring your gun. Watson: Ye- Wait, wh- Sherlock: There’s a slight possibility we might die Watson: Wait hold on- Sherlock: * backflips away *
Yes - he might have broken the possible death scenario to Watson a little more gently. I guess the good doctor is used to that sort of treatment. Cheers Izzy.
Good evening everyone, some months ago, I wrote a comment asking help to find a story, I got some answers but no one can identify it, so I decided to listen to all the stories in order to find it. Here I am, 6 months later and I did not find it!!! I am truly starting to think that I dream this and it doesnt actually exist!!! It starts describing a very cold and foggy day, sherlock its at the basement making a lot of noise and watson is reading something, then at dinner sherlock tells watson something about a very important experiment (something about bullets being fired, i think) and tells him that if he wants to know about this he must promise to stay at home and not talk to anyone, watson accepts this and sherlock goes back to the basement; then in the middle of the nigth a friend of watson arrives at the house and ask him to receive him. Thats the part where I always felt asleep. If anyone can help me with this I will be forever grateful!!! I am sure that im not creative enough to dream the story by myself but I listened to all the stories here, even the pastiches and I CAN NOT FOUND IT, maybe I dont remember correctly or I dont know... help please!!
super easy to learn from! if your struggling on reading during the summer I recommend this. that being said I think you could read slower just my opinion. the humor and accent is entertaining.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio I know right I have to watch it all and take notes down every ten minuites but I cant be bothered to do that so I might just do a 30 minuite detention instead no offense to you anyways
Just FYI - one pound in those days was worth roughly 100 pounds today, so a couple hundred pounds talked about in the story would be tens of thousands today.
@@sherlock_holmes_magpie_audio When Watson remarks that Holmes is the benefactor of the human race, Holmes replies with a quote. He shrugged his shoulders. “Well, perhaps, after all, it is of some little use,” he remarked. “ ‘L'homme c'est rien-l'oeuvre c'est tout,' as Gustave Flaubert wrote to George Sand.” (p. 18) This is a paraphrase of a famous quote in French which basically translates to: The man is nothing, the work is everything. This quote is intended to demonstrate Holmes’s lack of desire for the spotlight. The puzzle is what matters to him. My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so. (p. 18) Thus Holmes solves cases not to be famous or help others, but to avoid being bored.
I am watching these sherlock holmes books or whatever just cuz I don't want to read them myself and I need to read at least 3 books on the summer break xD
