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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Original publication
1902
Bilingual edition
June 12, 2026
Pages
345
Difficulty
★☆☆
Genres
Crime and Thriller, Horror
Translated from
English

Book summary

Sherlock Holmes, a detective with relentless reasoning, is called to investigate a curse that seems to haunt the Baskerville family. Alongside Dr. Watson, he unravels a case where superstition and reality become intertwined. On a dark and unsettling moor, every clue counts in revealing the truth. This story blends suspense, logic, and a gothic atmosphere, holding the reader in suspense until the resolution. The author constructs a methodical investigation where intelligence triumphs over mystery.

The plot

Sir Charles Baskerville, a wealthy Englishman, is found dead near his manor house, on the edge of a wild moor. His doctor, Dr Mortimer, tells the detective Sherlock Holmes what he saw a short distance from the body.

The world of the book

A wild moor in England. The mystery unfolds on Dartmoor, a vast moor in south-west England, made of bare hills and granite rocks. In the middle lies a great mire where you can sink into the mud. The ruins of stone huts…

The author

Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859–1930. In 1893, Arthur Conan Doyle had grown tired of his detective, Sherlock Holmes. In a short story, he made him vanish into a waterfall in Switzerland. But readers demanded his return. In…

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Every line of the original has its translation directly beneath it, at the same height. You never lose your place: your eye drops one line and lands on exactly the sentence it just read. This is the layout that lets you open a book in a language you barely know without ever giving up, and compare the two texts almost word for word.

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