The Hound of the Baskervilles - Oxford Worlds Classics
Arthur Conan Doyle (author), Darryl Jones (editor)

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Paperback (09 Mar 2023)


Publishers Synopsis

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 Doyles 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 Doyles classic mystery is part of a series of new editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories published in Oxford Worlds Classics. Darryl Joness Introduction explores the competing worlds of the supernatural and the scientific in the novel and in Arthur Conan Doyles life, the novels colonial background and origins, and the role of landscape, folklore, and folk horror in the novel.


Book information

ISBN: 9780198835226
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date: 09 Mar 2023
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 823.912
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Sales rank: 8243
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 168g
Height: 200mm
Width: 129mm
Spine width: 17mm