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Sherlock Holmes, master of rational deduction, the very image of refined reason, faces in The Hound of the Baskervilles an exquisitely cunning opponent who takes the form of a mysterious unknown evil that prowls the moor, a seemingly supernatural power. “I have hitherto confined my investigations to this world,” observed Holmes, “but to take on the Father of Evil himself would, perhaps, be too ambitious a task.”
But neither Holmes nor his steady companion Dr. Watson shrinks from the challenge when their audacious opponent enters the affair in the guise of Holmes himself. The gauntlet thrown, an unsettling sequence of mysteries follows. Only the prodigious powers of Sherlock Holmes can penetrate the veil of deception that surrounds the Baskervilles.
One of Holmes’s first deductions results from his superb knowledge of typefaces, and he would have no difficulty in recognizing the Baskerville types employed by Andrew Hoyem in his design for the fine Arion Press edition, here in its first trade publication. Ornamented with calligraphic initial letters drawn by Ward Dunham and featuring photographs by Michael Kenna capturing perfectly the mystery, tension, and melancholy of the moor, this edition is the most fitting presentation ever of Conan Doyle’s classic.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1986, North Point Press
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in English
- Arion Press Edition
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1968, John Murray, Dell D302
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The Hound of the Baskervilles is the third of the four crime novels by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set in 1889 largely on Dartmoor in Devon in England's West Country and tells the story of an attempted murder inspired by the legend of a fearsome, diabolical hound of supernatural origin. Holmes and Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his apparent death in "The Final Problem", and the success of The Hound of the Baskervilles led to the character's eventual revival.
One of the most famous stories ever written, in 2003, the book was listed as number 128 of 200 on the BBC's The Big Read poll of the UK's "best-loved novel". In 1999, a poll of "Sherlockians" ranked it as the best of the four Holmes novels.
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