
Basic Information
Abbreviation: HOUN (J. F. Christ, 1947)
Word length: 59,452 (C. E. Lauterbach, 1960)
First published: Strand Magazine, serialized August 1901 through April 1902. First book editions, George Newnes Ltd. (London) and McClure, Phillips & Co. (New York), 1902.
Redmond's Question
First half: Within a few paragraphs of this novel's beginning, James Mortimer says to Sherlock Holmes, "I confess that I covet your skull." Is it right for a shiver to run down the reader's spine? And in how many ways does that unexpected sentence foreshadow what is to come as the events of the story unfold?
Second half: This novel is often interpreted as a discussion of what happens when science and superstition meet. Is it also—considering the lingering love with which Doyle has Watson describe the rank vegetation of the mire and the bleak beauty of the moor—about the collision between urban civilization and rural nature?
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Explore Resources
- A comparison of film versions (Charlotte Smith)
- Baskerville Hall Hotel, Hay on Wye
- BBC Sherlock "The Hounds of Baskerville," annotated
- Can fear really induce a fatal heart attack?
- Dartmoor National Park
- Dartmoor Prison Museum and Visitor Centre
- Devon Heritage
- Do all demon dogs lead to Doyle?
- Hound of the Baskervilles and other tours of Devon
- Hound Summary of The Hound of the Baskervilles
- MojoNotes 8-minute study video
- Phosphorus
- Sherlock Holmes' (and Conan Doyle's) Finest Hour
- Spark Notes, 'today's most popular study guides'
- Story summary from McMurdo's Camp
- The black dog route
- The fear of dogs
- The text as a series of lessons in the artificial language Novial
- Unputdownable: the Penguin edition is right on your hands
- What to Do on Dartmoor