The Hound of the Baskervilles (Puffin Classics)


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    • ISBN13: 9780140366990
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    • Author : Arthur Conan Conan Doyle
    • Binding : Paperback
    • Dewey Decimal Number : 823.8
    • EAN : 9780140366990
    • ISBN : 0140366997
    • Label : Puffin
    • List Price : $4.99 (USD)
    • Manufacturer : Puffin
    • Number Of Items : 1
    • Number Of Pages : 256
    • Package Dimensions : 0.70 inches (Height) x 7.50 inches (Length) x 0.35 pounds (Weight) x 5.00 inches (Width)
    • Publication Date : 1995-11-01
    • Publisher : Puffin
    • Reading Level : Ages 9-12
    • Studio : Puffin

    We owe 1902's The Hound of the Baskervilles to Arthur Conan Doyle's good friend Fletcher "Bobbles" Robinson, who took him to visit some scary English moors and prehistoric ruins, and told him marvelous local legends about escaped prisoners and a 17th-century aristocrat who fell afoul of the family dog. Doyle transmogrified the legend: generations ago, a hound of hell tore out the throat of devilish Hugo Baskerville on the moonlit moor. Poor, accursed Baskerville Hall now has another mysterious death: that of Sir Charles Baskerville. Could the culprit somehow be mixed up with secretive servant Barrymore, history-obsessed Dr. Frankland, butterfly-chasing Stapleton, or Selden, the Notting Hill murderer at large? Someone's been signaling with candles from the mansion's windows. Nor can supernatural forces be ruled out. Can Dr. Watson--left alone by Sherlock Holmes to sleuth in fear for much of the novel--save the next Baskerville, Sir Henry, from the hound's fangs? Many Holmes fans prefer Doyle's complete short stories, but their clockwork logic doesn't match the author's boast about this novel: it's "a real Creeper!" What distinguishes this particular Hound is its fulfillment of Doyle's great debt to Edgar Allan Poe--it's full of ancient woe, low moans, a Grimpen Mire that sucks ponies to Dostoyevskian deaths, and locals digging up Neolithic skulls without next-of-kins' consent. "The longer one stays here the more does the spirit of the moor sink into one's soul," Watson realizes. "Rank reeds and lush, slimy water-plants sent an odour of decay ... while a false step plunged us more than once thigh-deep into the dark, quivering mire, which shook for yards in soft undulations around our feet ... it was as if some malignant hand was tugging us down into those obscene depths." Read on--but, reader, watch your step! --Tim Appelo

    - Amazon.com Review

    When Sir Charles Baskerville is found mysteriously dead in the grounds of Baskerville Hall, everyone remembers the legend of the monstrous creature that haunts the moor. The great detective Sherlock Holmes knows that there must be a more rational explanation, but the difficulty is to find it before the hellhound finds him.

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    Rated 4.5 stars Customers rated The Hound of the Baskervilles (Puffin Classics) 4.5 stars out of 5.0 based on 213 reviews:

    • Very good mystery novel

      by Jayson Manalili - 2010-08-21  Rated 5 stars
      With its unique and detailed setting that takes place in the past with mild moorlands and an evil feel, The Hound of the Baskervilles is a very goodd mystery novel. A novel that keeps you thinking, debating, guessing, and wanting to read more, which I personally think is the key to a good book. In this novel, good is pitted against evil, and realism against the supernatural, as Sherlock Holmes tries to defeat a very worthy and powerful foe. Throughout the novel, Holmes characteristically dismisses the following theory: Could the sudden and tragic death of Sir Charles Baskerville have been caused by a gigantic ghostly hound which is said to have haunted his family for generations? Claiming to be caught up in another case, he sends his partner Watson to Devon to protect the Baskerville heir and to observe the suspects closely. As the novel continues, the outcome of this murder case is slowly but surely solved in this very good mystery novel.

    • The Hound of the Baskervilles; A Sherlock Holmes Mystery

      by MT_MTN_MAN (MARION, MT.) - 2010-08-07  Rated 5 stars
      What a book. It's written as though you were there in the marshes, you can feel the dampness of the cool, wet fog all around you, sometimes it makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck if your reading it late at night, in bed with only one dim light on, lol. Arthur Conan Doyle was a master when it came to writing stories about his Sherlock Holmes. I great read.

    • Holmes Fan

      by Charlotte Scoggins - 2010-07-06  Rated 5 stars
      Read & reread my book till it fell apart. Bought this & the story continues for me. Good size print, easy to hold, solid. Should last many more reads. thanks Amazon!

    • Dorling Kindersley Classic: The Hound of the Baskervilles

      by Michael S. Corwin (Pasadena, CA USA) - 2010-06-27  Rated 5 stars
      As an 8th grade English teacher in a very inner city school, I've found that students absolutely love the Sherlock Holmes short stories we have available in abridged form. Unfortunately, there are only seven stories. Fortunately, they are all among the best. But "The Hound of the Baskervilles" is a complete novel and much too difficult to attempt in its original form. The British Victorian vocabulary and tedious verbosity would lose them by page 2. Then came this wonderful DK Classic abridged version. Not only is it written in more modern English, with updated vocabulary and style, it contains fantastic color illustrations on almost every page. Best of all are DK's exceptional marginal notes, explaining most of the Victorian references, and the perfect Introduction which hooks the young imagination right from the start. Sadly this book is now out of print but I've obtained many copies through Amazon's listed sellers, for a fraction of the original cost.

    • T.H.O.B.

      by - 2010-05-05  Rated 4 stars
      what is big, bad, and from the pit of Hell?, upon the moor be it dwell, I bode to Sir Henry fare the well, and suggest that the mansion he should sell. Do you love a good mystery once in a while, which will leave you guessing right until the end? If so, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was made for you. Written in 1910, for a century this book has been the rave for thrill and mystery seekers all over the world. The Hound of the Baskervilles is a novel dealing with a centuries old legend of a "Hell-Hound" lurking in the town of Devonshire located in southern England. When Dr. Watson and his accomplice Sherlock Holmes get wind of a murder taken place they are instantaneously intrigued and immediately devote their time into the inves-tigation. Sir Charles Baskerville died from unexplained causes with no trace but a sin-gle foot prints from "a hound as big as a large lioness". From the outset, Dr. Watson is hot on the trail of the hound and planning to send the legend home with its tail be-tween its legs. But then as in all good stories there is a plot twist where all of yours and their assumptions are proven wrong. I would recommend this book to anyone with a strong reading capability and a love for a mystery because I thoroughly enjoyed it and I would bet my bottom dollar that you will too. So if I can give any advice it would be for you to read this and you will like it. If anyone asked me I would above all else recommend this book with a slight warning. You need to be a strong reader to tackle this book for it is not written in a modern context for after all it is a flat century old. This book however is a must read. There are parts about this book that you are so enthralled and mortified while your heart is beating a triathlon and your instincts say to put the book down but you just can't muster the strength. At one point in the book where a stranger meets an un-fortunate demise it is especially exuberating.

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