‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Collector’s Hardcover)

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The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Collector’s Hardcover)

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Collector’s Hardcover) published 2009

Part of Penguin’s beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series. Designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. The printer has bound these delectable and collectible editions in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

This edition contains a full chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle’s life and works, an introduction by renowned horror scholar Professor Christopher Frayling discussing the background to the novel and the legends and events that inspired the story, with further reading and explanatory notes. Christopher Frayling teaches at London’s Royal College of Art.

Synopsis:

Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby. All of those around blame a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve . They must do this before Sir Charles’ heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body, this classic horror story pits detective against dog.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

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. Conan Doyle modelled his detective, Sherlock Holmes, in part after Dr. Joseph Bell of the Edinburgh Infirmary, a man with spectacular powers of observation, analysis, and inference. Furthermore, he may have also drawn inspiration from 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. Since then fifty-nine more Sherlock Holmes adventures followed.

Later, Weary of Holmes, his creator killed him off but had to resurrect him due to popular demand. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, knighted for his defence of the British cause in The Great Boer War, became an ardent Spiritualist after his son Kingsley, wounded at the Somme in World War I, died. Finally, Conan Doyle passed away in Sussex in 1930.

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Product Information:

195 pages

ISBN – 9780141192437

Publisher – Penguin