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CHAPTER 1 The Science of Deduction Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined arm-chair with a long sigh of satisfaction. Three times a day for many months I had witnessed this performance, but custom had not reconciled my mind to it. On the contrary, from day to day I had become more irritable at the sight, and my conscience swelled nightly within me at the thought that I had lacked the courage to protest. Again and again I had registered a vow that I should deliver my soul upon the subject, but there was that in the cool, nonchalant air of my companion which made him the last man with whom one would care to take anything approaching to a liberty. His great powers, his masterly manner, and the experience which I had had of his many extraordinary qualities, all made me diffident and backward in crossing him.
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Sample from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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The glossary for each chapter of the book familiarises students with unfamiliar concepts and culturallyspecific references.
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drank gin ... to mortify a taste for vintages: gin was, at the time, a cheap alcohol, commonly drunk by the lower classes. Vintages are fine, expensive wines. Utterson is practising self-denial (mortifying his taste) by drinking the less pleasant drink.
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approved: proven
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Cain’s heresy: in Judeo-Christianity, in the Old Testament when God asks Cain where his murdered brother is, Cain denies his responsibility, replying ‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’ (Genesis 4:9)
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chambers: the offices of a barrister or lawyer
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catholicity: breadth; inclusiveness
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Hence: from this; in consequence
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distained: discoloured
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Juggernaut: a destructive, unstoppable force. The meaning derives from the Hindu temple cars of Jagannath Temple in Puri, India, which were falsely understood by midnineteenth-century English writers such as Dickens and Stevenson to crush blindly devoted worshippers beneath their wheels.
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gave a view halloa: a shout made by a hunter sighting prey
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Sawbones: slang for a surgeon
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apothecary: person who dispenses medicines, remedies and medical advice
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harpies: in Greek and Roman mythology, harpies were dangerous monsters, half-woman, half-bird
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cheque for the balance on Coutts’s: Coutts is a wellrespected private bank for wealthy clients, founded in 1692. Hyde appears to have been given a cheque for the money demanded of him by a wealthy, respectable person.
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often printed: appearing frequently in newspapers and society columns about the rich and powerful 88
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A LEVEL
Introduction There is a short paragraph in Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, To The Lighthouse (1927), which begins and ends with the same sentence: ‘Never did anybody look so sad.’1 It’s a description of one of the novel’s main characters, Mrs Ramsay, who has just measured a stocking she has knitted for the lighthouse keeper’s son and found it to be too short. This paragraph may seem quite trivial in passing, but it has taken on great significance in the reception of Woolf’s work. Why? It was picked out by the German literary historian Erich Auerbach in Mimesis (1946), a book that sought to trace the different ways in which poets and writers have tried to represent reality in their work, beginning with Homer’s Odyssey and running through to what was then more or less the present day. Auerbach comments: Who is speaking in this paragraph? Who is looking at Mrs Ramsay here, who concludes that never did anybody look so sad? Who is expressing these doubtful, obscure suppositions? […] The person speaking here, whoever it is, acts the part of one who has only an impression of Mrs Ramsay, who looks at her face and renders the impression received, but is doubtful of its proper interpretation.2 These kinds of question also arise when we try to understand Mrs Dalloway, a novel that explores character and relationships by moving in and out of different people’s minds, sometimes within the same scene. It calls for care on the part of the reader to recognise these shifts of perspective, which are often marked only by a change in the texture of language iv
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SHAKESPEARE MACBETH
MACBETH MACBETH
A C T O N EA CS T C EONNEE T W S COE N E T W O
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SCENE 2 SCENE 2 The secondThe scene second dealsscene mainly deals with mainly the report with the of the report battle of in the which battle in which the ‘Macbeth’ the ‘Macbeth’ we have already we haveheard already about, heard andabout, another andman, another man, Banquo, have Banquo, excelled. have However, excelled. However, the feeling theof feeling uncertainty of uncertainty is is maintained, maintained, because the because outcome theofoutcome the battle of is the left battle in doubt is leftby inthe doubt by the Sergeant. He Sergeant. nevertheless He nevertheless presents Macbeth presentsas Macbeth the decisive as thefactor, decisive factor, and Ross gives and Ross the same givesimpression the same impression from his point fromof his view point when of view he when he provides the provides final news the final thatnews the battle that the has battle been won. has been We get won. a We get a remarkableremarkable picture of picture Macbeth of as Macbeth a kind of as superman, a kind of superman, a fearless, a fearless, ferocious, almost ferocious, untouchable almost untouchable champion champion of right against of right treachery. against treachery. 1–3. He can 1–3.report He can … report state He … looks state as He though looks ashethough has come, he has come, wounded, wounded, straight from straight the battle, from the andbattle, will beand ablewill to give be able us an to give up- us an upto-date report. to-date report.
’Gainst myto captivity savebeing me from being captured. 5. ’Gainst5.my captivity save meto from captured. 6. knowledge the broil news of the battle. 6. knowledge of the broilofnews of the battle. 9. choke their art (the two exhausted prevent 9. choke their art (the two exhausted swimmers)swimmers) prevent each othereach other their swimming skill. from usingfrom theirusing swimming skill. to that that to he show that he is without doubt a traitor. 10. to that10. to that end,toi.e. to end, showi.e. that is without doubt a traitor. 12. swarm him like lice. 12. swarm upon him upon like lice. 12. Isles Western Isles to including the west, including Ireland 12. Western islands to islands the west, Ireland and the and the Hebrides. Hebrides. kerns and gallowglasses lightly-armed foot-soldiers and 13. kerns 13. and gallowglasses lightly-armed foot-soldiers and armed horsemen horsemen armed with axes. with axes. 14–15.the Fortune Roman goddessregarded Fortuna,asregarded as-highly un14–15. Fortune Romanthe goddess Fortuna, highly un reliable.ignores Macbeth her (Disdaining Fortune, line 17) and takes reliable. Macbeth herignores (Disdaining Fortune, line 17) and takes hishis fate into his own hands, a trait werepeated are to seelater repeated his fate into own hands, a trait we are to see in thelater in the play. play. 17–18. brandished steel … execution swordwith steamed 17–18. brandished steel … execution His sword His steamed the with the bloodheofhad those had just killed. hot blood hot of those justhekilled. 19.minion valour’s minion the of favourite of Valour (personified 19. valour’s the favourite Valour (personified in much in much the as same way as Fortune). the same way Fortune). out his cut passage cut through his way the through men on the carv’d outcarv’d his passage his way men the on the battlefield.battlefield. Till he unseam’d …his hesword thrustin hisatsword in at(nave), the navel (nave), 22–3. Till22–3. he unseam’d … he thrust the navel up to(chaps), the jawsthen (chaps), then cutoff hisand head off and ripped himripped open him up toopen the jaws cut his head it on the battlements. stuck it onstuck the battlements.
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KS3 A Midsummer Night’s Dream GCSE Macbeth Much Ado about Nothing Romeo and Juliet The Merchant of Venice The Tempest Twelfth Night A LEVEL Othello King Lear Hamlet
A camp near A camp Forres near Forres [Alarum within. [Alarum Enter within. KINGEnter DUNCAN KING, MALCOLM DUNCAN, ,MALCOLM, DONALBAIN DONALBAIN , LENNOX with , LENNOX ATTENDANTS with ATTENDANTS , meeting a, meeting a bleeding SERGEANT bleeding.]SERGEANT.] Duncan Duncan What bloody What man bloody is that? manHe is can that? report, He can report, As seemeth As by seemeth his plight, by his of plight, the revolt of the revolt The newest The state. newest state. Malcolm Malcolm This is theThis sergeant is the sergeant Who like Who a good like and a good hardyand soldier hardy fought soldier fought ’Gainst my ’Gainst captivity. my captivity. Hail, brave Hail, friend! brave friend! 5 Say to theSay King to the knowledge King the knowledge of the broil of the broil As thou didst As thou leave didst it. leave it. Sergeant Sergeant Doubtful Doubtful it stood, it stood, As two spent As two swimmers spent swimmers that do cling thattogether do cling together And choke And their choke art. their The merciless art. The merciless Macdonwald Macdonwald – – Worthy toWorthy be a rebel, to befor a rebel, to thatfor to that 10 The multiplying The multiplying villainies villainies of nature of nature Do swarmDo upon swarm himupon – from him the – from Western theIsles Western Isles Of kerns and Of kerns gallowglasses and gallowglasses is supplied; is supplied; And Fortune, And on Fortune, his damned on his quarrel damnedsmiling, quarrel smiling, Show’d like Show’d a rebel’s likewhore. a rebel’s But whore. all’s too Butweak; all’s too weak; 15 For braveFor Macbeth brave Macbeth – well he –deserves well he that deserves namethat – name – Disdaining Disdaining Fortune, with Fortune, his brandish’d with his brandish’d steel steel Which smok’d Whichwith smok’d bloody with execution, bloody execution, Like valour’s Likeminion, valour’scarv’d minion, outcarv’d his passage out his passage Till he fac’d Tillthe he slave; fac’d the slave; 20 Which ne’er Which shook ne’er hands, shook nor hands, bade nor farewell badeto farewell him, to him, Till he unseam’d Till he unseam’d him fromhim the from nave to theth’ nave chaps, to th’ chaps, And fix’dAnd his head fix’d upon his head ourupon battlements. our battlements.
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