‘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 of 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 which 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.Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Darryl Jones
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 06/09/2023
Series: Oxford World’s Classics
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780198835226
Language: English
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