The Hound of the Baskervilles (Penguin Classic)

Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle , Frayling, Christopher 저자(글)

Penguin Classic · 2001년 10월 01일

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It was Sir Charles's mysterious death in the grounds of Baskerville Hall that brought Sherlock Holmes to the scene of one of his most famous and intriguing cases.
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 ?5, 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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For use in schools and libraries only. Warned that death awaits him if he claims his inheritance of a cursed ancestral manor, Sir Henry Baskerville calls on Sherlock Holmes for assistance.
In this, one of the most famous of Doyle's mysteries, the tale of an ancient curse and a savage ghostly hound comes frighteningly to life. The gray towers of Baskerville Hall and the wild open country of Dartmoor will haunt the reader as Holmes and Watson seek to unravel the many secrets of the misty English bogs.
Kids--come watch master sleuth Sherlock Holmes as he wrestles with one of his most famous cases! A classic mystery will come to life for a new generation as young readers learn the secrets of detection at the side of the very best. With Holmes's trusted assistant, Dr. John Watson, narrating the mystery, kids will join Holmes in sorting through clues, red herrings, and incriminating evidence both in the book itself and in a private "for your eyes only" dossier at the end.
Mr. Sherlock Holmes who was usually very late in the mornings save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before.
Perhaps the most popular of all Sherlock Holmes stories, The Hound of the Baskervilles combines the traditional detective tale with elements of horror. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse-and it is up to Holmes and Watson to solve the mystery of the legend. Rationalism is pitted against the supernatural and good against evil, as Sherlock Holmes tries to defeat a foe almost his equal. Introduction and notes by Christopher Fraying.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his famous tale "The Hound of the Baskervilles" in response to popular demand for another Sherlock Holmes story. The legendary curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles warns of a devil-beast that haunts the moors near the Baskerville home on the English moors. But the new heir of the family is determined to disprove the legend and solve the mystery of his uncleas recent death, so he calls on the expertise of Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Dr. Watson. This unique Whole Story edition combines a thrilling mystery with detailed captions and related factual information about Conan Doyle, late-nineteenth century England, and the enormous success of Sherlock Holmes. The background information, illustrations, and photographs all come together to put the story in the context of its era.
The curse of the Baskervilles began in the 17th Century, when Sir Hugo swore he would give his soul to possess the beautiful daughter of a yeoman. He captured her, but she escaped. He saddled his horse and chased the girl over the moors until she dropped dead from exhaustion . . . and then a black hell-hound appeared, with eyes like fire, and ripped out Hugo's throat. @Now, years later, the Hound has returned. Already it has caused the death of Hugo's descendant, Sir Charles Baskerville. Can Sherlock Holmes stop the curse before it claims Henry Baskerville, the heir of Sir Charles?
The most famous of the Sherlock Holmes stories,The Hound of the Baskervillesfeatures the phantom dog of Dartmoor, which, according to an ancient legend, has haunted the Baskervilles for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville dies suddenly of a heart attack on the grounds of the family's estate, the locals are convinced that the spectral hound is responsible, and Holmes is called in. "Conan Doyle triumphed and triumphed deservedly," G. K. Chesterton wrote, "because he took his art seriously, because he lavished a hundred little touches of real knowledge and genuine picturesqueness on the police novelette." From the Trade Paperback edition.
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작가정보

저자(글) Arthur Conan Doyle

런던 할레 가의 안과의사이자 명탐정 홈즈의 창조자다. 할아버지와 큰아버지는 화가로, 예술적인 피가 흐르는 집에서 태어났다. 그러나 대학에서 의학을 전공했고 안과를 개업해 의사로 활동했다. 병원이 잘 되지 않자 글을 써 투고하기 시작했고 1891년 7월, 〈스트리트 매거진〉에 셜록 홈즈 시리즈를 연재하게 된다. 소년 시절 읽은 에드거 앨런 포의 뒤팽 탐정을 가슴에 두고 있다가, 스승 조셉 벨 박사를 모델로 탐정 셜록 홈즈를 창조했다. 첫 장편 『주홍색 연구』는 그다지 좋은 평판을 받지 못했지만 『보헤미아의 스캔들』 이후 폭발적인 인기를 얻어 추리작가로 성공했다. 탐정의 대명사인 셜록 홈즈는 세계에서 가장 유명하고 가장 위대한 탐정이다. 그러나 자신의 작품 중 최대의 업적은 심령현상의 진실과 사자(死者)와의 교신을 증명하는 책이라 믿고 여기에 인생 최후의 11년을 바쳤다. 자신이 중요하다고 생각하는 작품에서 홈즈가 자신과 독자의 관심을 빼앗아 가지 않을까 우려해, 어느 시점에서 홈즈를 죽였는데 여론에 밀려 나중에 그를 살릴 수밖에 없었다. 만년에는 '세계심령학회' 회장을 지내는 등 심령연구에 정열을 쏟고 강연 여행을 다녔다. 셜록 홈즈 시리즈 외에 『화이트 컴퍼니』, 『마이카 클락』, 『잃어버린 세계』, 『회상과 모험(자서전)』 등의 작품이 있다.

저자(글) Frayling, Christopher

목차

• The Hound of the Baskervilles	p. i
  Oxford World's Classics	p. ii
  Acknowledgements	p. vi
  General Editor's Preface to the Series	p. vii
  Introduction	p. xi
  Note on the Text	p. xxx
  Select Bibliography	p. xxxi
  A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle	p. xxxvii
  Mr Sherlock Holmes	p. 3
  The Curse of the Baskervilles	p. 9
  Three Broken Threads	p. 41
  The Stapletons of Merripit House	p. 61
  First Report of Dr Watson	p. 75
  The Light Upon the Moor	p. 82
  Extract from the Diary of Dr Watson	p. 99
  The Man on the Tor	p. 109
  Death on the Moor	p. 122
  Fixing the Nets	p. 136
  The Hound of the Baskervilles	p. 146
  A Retrospection	p. 157
  Explanatory Notes	p. 169
  Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.

기본정보

ISBN	9780140437867 ( 014043786X )
발행(출시)일자	2001년 10월 01일
쪽수	256쪽
크기	129 * 197 * 15 mm / 190 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어