Arthur Conan Doyle
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1902 · 408 pages
- Author
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- Edition
- First edition, with illustrations by Sidney Paget
- Published
- London, George Newnes, Limited, Southampton Street, Strand (printed by William Clowes and Sons), 1902
- Pages
- 408
- File
- DjVu, 7.6 MB
- Text search
- yes
- Rights
- public domain
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About the book
The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of Arthur Conan Doyle’s four Sherlock Holmes novels. It ran as a serial in The Strand Magazine from 1901 to 1902 and came out as a book in 1902. Doyle had killed Holmes off in 1893, so this story, set before the detective’s supposed death, marked his return after eight years.
Dr Mortimer brings Holmes and Watson an old family legend: a spectral hound that has haunted the Baskervilles since the time of the wicked Sir Hugo. Sir Charles Baskerville has just been found dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall on Dartmoor, with the footprints of a gigantic hound nearby, and his heir, Sir Henry, is arriving from Canada. Holmes sends Watson to Baskerville Hall, and much of the book is told through Watson’s reports and diary from the moor.
With its foggy moorland, escaped convict and apparently supernatural menace explained by reason, it is often called the best of the Holmes stories and one of the most famous detective novels ever written.
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About this edition
The first book edition, published in London in 1902 by George Newnes, the publisher of The Strand Magazine, and printed by William Clowes and Sons. It carries the subtitle “Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes”, Doyle’s dedication to his friend Robinson, and sixteen plates by Sidney Paget, starting with the frontispiece “The Shadow of Sherlock Holmes”. The scan has a text layer.
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