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The Hound of the Baskervilles

By Arthur Conan Doyle
Series: Oxford World's Classics
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In The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the eerie moors of Dartmoor. Legend tells of a monstrous hound that haunts the Baskerville family, but Holmes seeks a rational explanation behind the curse. This classic novel masterfully blends elements of the supernatural with sharp detective work.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Ideal for fans of classic crime and thriller novels, especially readers who enjoy detective stories with gothic and supernatural undertones.

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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the most famous and enduringly popular Sherlock Holmes story of all. It is a landmark detective novel and a landmark in popular culture. It counterpoints the modern rational, scientific, medical, urban world of Holmes with the older local world of landscape, folklore, supernaturalism, and sense of place.

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Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!

The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral Curse of the Baskervilles, which summons a demonic hound to stalk the moor and exact vengeance for a past misdeed, or is there a more modern, more prosaic explanation for the sudden death?

In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the modern, rational world and the ancient, supernatural world collide in the novel that brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. This new edition of Conan Doyle's classic mystery is part of a series of new editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories published in Oxford World's Classics.

Darryl Jones's Introduction explores the competing worlds of the supernatural and the scientific in the novel and in Arthur Conan Doyle's life, the novel's colonial background and origins, and the role of landscape, folklore, and folk horror in the novel.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780198835226

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 March 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oxford University Press

Edition: 2nd Revised edition

Contributors:

  • Volume editor Darryl Jones
  • Volume editor Darryl Jones

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 164g

Pages: 224

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Arthur Conan Doyle Classic Fiction Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Historical Crime & Mystery Historical Fiction Series: Oxford World's Classics

About the Author

Darryl Jones is Professor of Modern British Literature and Culture at Trinity College Dublin. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including the Oxford World's Classics editions of M. R. James's Collected Ghost Stories (2013) and Arthur Conan Doyle's Gothic Tales (2018). His most recent book is Horror: A Very Short Introduction (OUP, 2021). He is currently working on M. R. James, on Arthur Conan Doyle, and on the Anglo-Irish time traveller, J. W. Dunne.

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