sherlock holmes the hound of the baskervilles book

So, I have no words to explain the whole experience of reading this book which I think can only be felt but cant be explained. Then the idea of the supernatural in the story is brilliantly merged with the practical. He subtly creates a platform to thrill and entertain his readers through his simple yet elegant writing style. And this is the first hint of the genius of Arthur Conan Doyle. The vastness and the hint of the unknown in the moors made me shiver. But is the curse the reason for Sir Charles’ death or did he just die from a weak heart? And is the mysterious and deadly hound real or just a figment of everyone’s imagination? Also can Sherlock solve this case and prove it to be the work of a mortal rather than the work of a supernatural being, as everyone believes it to be?

Mortimer fears that he, too, will fall victim to the curse. So, now that the only surviving heir to Sir Charles, Henry Baskerville, is arriving in England to take up his residence at the Baskerville hall, Dr. And since then all Baskerville men have been cursed by its presence. This curse hounds all Baskerville men.Īccording to the legend, a huge black hound killed Hugo Baskerville following a dreadful deed done by him. Mortimer is unsure if the death of Sir Charles is natural or the result of the realisation of the Baskerville curse. (Nov.Set in the England of 1880s, the mysterious death of a prominent man, Sir Charles Baskerville, in the moors of Dartmoor brings his physician and friend, Dr. ) will be translated into English as well.

Readers may be more impressed with Bayard's cleverness than his tongue-in-cheek arguments, but his logic will lead many to hope that his opinion on who really killed Hamlet's father (in Enquête sur Hamlet He goes a step further than with the Agatha Christie whodunit by suggesting that Holmes erred in his identification not only of the murderer but of the murder victim. As always, Bayard playfully counters the ways literary academics read with the way real people read as he explains his theory of “detective criticism.” Arguing that Sherlock Holmes often drew false conclusions, Bayard picks apart the apparently airtight case Holmes assembled in The Hound of the BaskervillesĪnd offers an alternative solution. With this audacious revisionist view of one of the best-known mysteries of all time. ) returns to the close reading and iconoclastic analysis of classic detective fiction he did in Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? French literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard ( How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

Sherlock holmes the hound of the baskervilles book