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Title: |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
| Sub-title: |
Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, with "The Adventure of the Speckled Band" |
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| By (author): |
Arthur Conan Doyle Edited by: Francis O'Gorman |
| ISBN10-13: |
1551117223 : 9781551117225 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pages: |
300 |
| Weight: |
.401 Kg. |
| Published: |
Broadview Press - January 2006 |
| List Price: |
20.25 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 2 |
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| The Hound of the Baskervilles (1901â 02) is Arthur Conan Doyleâ s most celebrated Sherlock Holmes adventure. At the end of the yew tree path of his ancestral home, Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead. Close by are the footprints of a gigantic hound. Called to investigate, Holmes seems to face a supernatural foe. In the tense narration of the detectiveâ s efforts to solve the crime, Conan Doyle meditates on late Victorian and early twentieth-century ideas of ancestry and atavism, the possible biological determination of criminals, the stability of the British landed classes, and the place of the supernatural. Historical documents included with this fully-annotated Broadview edition help contextualize the novelâ s debates and reveal its cultural and literary significance as a supreme instance of early detective fiction. Also included is the Conan Doyle short story â The Adventure of the Speckled Band.â |
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