The Hound of the Baskervilles

"The Hound of the Baskervilles" is the third of the four crime novels written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring the detective Sherlock Holmes. Originally serialised in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902, it is set 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. Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson investigate the case. This was the first appearance of Holmes since his intended death in "The Final Problem", and the success of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" led to the character’s eventual revival.


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mardi 30 décembre 2014
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The 1959 film

Prologue The infamous and cruel aristocrat, Sir Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley), is hosting a party at Baskerville Hall, when the daughter of a cruelly abused servant escapes from the mansion through a window, frightened by Baskerville’s lustful intent for her. In spite of his friends’ (...)
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The plot : summary of the play

The show begins with the lecherous Sir Hugo Baskerville, who became the victim of a terrifying hound, as he chased a young girl over a deserted moor. Ever since, every generation of Baskervilles has been tormented by a mysterious and supernatural hound from Hell. The recent death of Sir Charles (...)
mardi 30 décembre 2014
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The characters in the play

Sherlock Holmes : the ultimate sleuth, whose razor-sharp brain is always at work. Holmes describes himself as the world’s only consulting detective, and has developed the science of deduction to an extraordinary degree. He is tall and thin, with dark hair and eyebrows, grey eyes, thin lips and (...)