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..and mechanically put his fingers, in search of the necessary money, where his waistcoat pocket should have been. But here the cotton gown, which had nobly stood by him so far, and which he had basely forgotten, intervened, and frustrated his efforts. In a sort of nightmare he struggled with the strange uncanny thing that seemed to hold his hands, turn all muscular strivings to water, and laugh at him all the time; while other travellers, forming up in a line behind, waited with impatience, making suggestions of more or less value and comments of more or less stringency and point. At last—somehow—he never rightly understood how—he burst the barriers, attained the goal, arrived at where all waistcoat pockets are eternally situated, and found—not only no money, but no pocket to hold it, and no waistcoat to hold the pocket! To his horror he recollected that he had left both coat and waistcoat behind him in his cell, and with them his pocket-book, money, keys, watch, matches, pencil...

The best book intro known to man. Pelham Grenville on Arthur Conan Doyle in Ballantine's 1975 edition of The Sign of the Four Bully Comics' reconstruction When I was starting out as a writer—this would be about the time Caxton invented the printing press—Conan Doyle was my hero. Others might revere Hardy and Meredith. I was a Doyle man, and I still am. Usually we tend to discard the idols of our youth as we grow older, but I have not had this experience with A.C.D. I thought him swell then, and I think him swell now. We were great friends in those days. our friendship interrupted only when I went to live in America. He was an enthusiastic cricketer-he could have played for any first-class county-and he used to have cricket weeks at his place in the country, to which I was nearly always invited. And after a day's cricket and a big dinner he and I would discuss literature. The odd thing was that though he could be expansive about his least known short stories - those in Round...

Don't fall for this (excuse my ...) : Brander Matthews (18521929). The Short-Story. 1907. Here's the corrected version :  The Necklace By Guy de Maupassant SHE was one of those pretty and charming girls, born by a blunder of destiny in a family of employees. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, married by a man rich and distinguished; and she let herself be married to a lowly clerk in the Department of Education. She dressed simply since she could not be adorned; but she was unhappy as though fallen from a higher class; for women have no caste and no descent, their beauty, their grace, and their charm serving them instead of birth and fortune. Their native keenness, their instinctive elegance, their flexibility of mind, are their only hierarchy; and these make the daughters of the people the equals of the most lofty dames. She suffered intensely, feeling herself born for every delicacy and every luxury. She suffered from the poverty of...

Guru level stuff which goes over my head, not being a math. But, some good, concise stuff on Matlab you might want to look into if you have the time. It's on Skillsoft..

https://www.harpercollins.com/pages/InfluenceNewAndExpanded

Manas Saloi :  https://manassaloi.com/bookshelf/