THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY Đây là một tác phẩm anh ngữ nổi tiếng với những từ vựng quen thuộc. Nhằm giúp các em và các bạn yêu thich tiếng anh luyện tập và củng cố thêm kỹ năng đọc tiếng anh . | THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOMES ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A CASE OF IDENTITY My dear fellow said Sherlock Holmes as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand hover over this great city gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on the strange coincidences the plannings the cross-purposes the wonderful chains of events working through generation and leading to the most outre results it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. And yet I am not convinced of it I answered. The cases which come to light in the papers are as a rule bald enough and vulgar enough. We have in our police reports realism pushed to its extreme limits and yet the result is it must be confessed neither fascinating nor artistic. A certain selection and discretion must be used in producing a realistic effect remarked Holmes. This is wanting in the police report where more stress is laid perhaps upon the platitudes of the magistrate than upon the details which to an observer contain the vital essence of the whole matter. Depend upon it there is nothing so unnatural as the commonplace. I smiled and shook my head. I can quite understand your thinking so. I said. Of course in your position of unofficial adviser and helper to everybody who is absolutely puzzled throughout three continents you are brought in contact with all that is strange and bizarre. But here --I picked up the morning paper from the ground-- let us put it to a practical test. Here is the first heading upon which I come. A husband s cruelty to his wife. There is half a column of print but I know without reading it that it is all perfectly familiar to me. There is of course the other woman the drink the push the .
