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About the Author

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Arthur Conan Doyle was born on May 22, 1859, in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a young man he seemed destined for a career in medicine. In […]

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Overview

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For many years, the region around the Baskerville estate was poor and backward, but when Sir Charles Baskerville returns to claim his estate, the region […]

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Setting

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The late Victorian setting of The Hound of the Baskervilles is an orderly one. In it, each person has a role to fill, and when […]

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Themes and Characters

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Sherlock Holmes is a private investigator who operates out of his rooms at 221B Baker Street in London, England. Well-to-do, he takes only the cases […]

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Literary Qualities

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The techniques in The Hound of the Baskervilles are common to most Holmes mysteries. First, a client visits Holmes, and Holmes makes some clever deductions […]

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Social Sensitivity

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The Hound of the Baskervilles depicts the kinds of individual disorientation that are created by social disorder. For instance, love is perverted by evil in […]

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Topics for Discussion

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1. What is your initial reaction after reading the manuscript that explains the myth of the “Hound of the Baskervilles”? 2. Stapleton says, “This is […]

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Ideas for Reports and Papers

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1. Compare The Hound of the Baskervilles to several of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories. Discuss the similarities. 2. Does the nature of the […]