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The Hound of the Baskervilles
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The Hound of the Baskervilles Mass market paperbound - 1987

by Doyle, Arthur Conan

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The recent death of Sir Charles Baskerville stirs up a dangerous business. For the "luminous, ghastly, and spectral" hound of the family legend has been seen roaming the moors at night, and it appears that the new baronet has inherited, along with the ancient house and vast wealth of his family, a dreadful destiny. . . .

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  • Title The Hound of the Baskervilles
  • Author Doyle, Arthur Conan
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition Reissue
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 174
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date 1987-03-15
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 18846148-6
  • ISBN 9780425104057 / 0425104052
  • Weight 0.19 lbs (0.09 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.85 x 4.16 x 0.49 in (17.40 x 10.57 x 1.24 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1090
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects Mystery fiction, Dogs
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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About this book

Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead and Sherlock Holmes is called upon to protect his heir, Sir Henry Baskerville.

Narrating the story, Holmes’s assistant Dr. Watson is sent to Dartmoor to investigate the unsettling tale of the Hound of the Baskervilles. This legend warns the descendants of the Baskerville family never to venture out on the moors that surround their ancestral home, or they will meet the beast that lurks in the shadows. 
 
Though the story may seem unbelievable, a man is dead and footprints of a giant hound are found nearby. Sherlock and Dr. Watson agree to dig deeper into the truth of the matter and will discover that nothing is quite as it seems.  

The most famous of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles was serialized in The Strand Magazine in 1901-02 and soon published to book form in 1902. Wildly popular, this novel has been adapted for film numerous times, starting with a silent German production in 1914. 

From the publisher

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe’s detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for £25, and thus was born the world’s best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur—he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War—became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.

First Edition Identification

It was printed in the United Kingdom as a novel in March 1902 by George Newnes Ltd, then published in the same year in the United States by McClure, Philips & Co.

The first edition - first printing of this title, published by George Newnes Ltd, has a misprint of “you” for “your” on page 13. The book is bound in the publisher’s original red decorative cloth with binding designed by Alfred Garth Jones. The titles are in gilt, with a hound’s silhouette stamped in black surrounded by a gilt floral design. Illustrations are by Sidney Paget.  

Published by McClure, Phillips & Co., the first edition - first printing of this title does not include an “R” printed on the copyright page. This book is bound in red cloth with white lettering. 

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About the author

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh in 1859. After nine years in Jesuit schools, he went to Edinburgh University, receiving a degree in medicine in 1881. He then became an eye specialist in Southsea, with a distressing lack of success. Hoping to augment his income, he wrote his first story, A Study in Scarlet. His detective, Sherlock Holmes, was modeled in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Conan Doyle may have been influenced also by his admiration for the neat plots of Gaboriau and for Poe's detective, M. Dupin. After several rejections, the story was sold to a British publisher for 25, and thus was born the world's best-known and most-loved fictional detective. Fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed. Once, wearying of Holmes, his creator killed him off, but was forced by popular demand to resurrect him. Sir Arthur--he had been knighted for this defense of the British cause in his The Great Boer War--became an ardent Spiritualist after the death of his son Kingsley, who had been wounded at the Somme in World War I. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle died in Sussex in 1930.

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