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Type of bind: Turtleback
EAN num: 9780670036547
ISBN number: 0670036544
Label: Viking Juvenile
Manufacturer: Viking Juvenile
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 192
Printing Date: April 12, 2004
Publishing house: Viking Juvenile
Age index: Young Adult
Sale Popularity Level: 517665
Studio: Viking Juvenile
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his famous tale The Hound of the Baskervilles in response to popular demand for another Sherlock Holmes story. The legendary curse of the Hound of the Baskervilles warns of a devil-beast that haunts the moors near the Baskerville home on the English moors. But the new heir of the family is determined to disprove the legend and solve the mystery of his uncle’s recent death, so he calls on the expertise of Sherlock Holmes and his loyal assistant Dr. Watson.
This unique Whole Story edition combines a thrilling mystery with detailed captions and related factual information about Conan Doyle, late-nineteenth century England, and the enormous sucess of Sherlock Holmes. The background information, illustrations, and photographs all come together to put the story in the context of its era.
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The Whole Story's edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles is an excellent way to read the novel without very first being familiar with Victorian English society. The original text of the novel is reprinted in full, without annotative numbers or footnotes to distract from the story. All historical pictures, anecdotes, and information are to be found in the margins, complete with smaller, bold text. This allows the reader to read the original novel without interruption, read the novel while glancing to the margins for additional historical tidbits, or just peruse the history separately.
The pictures and anecdotes are simply presented, interesting, and relevant to the section of the story in which they appear. This would be a great edition of the story for use in a combined British Lit/British History class or any literature class where students might not have the background knowledge necessary to fully imagine this wonderful text in their minds.
The greatest drawback for the book is the use of new illustrations by artist Nicollet. Nicollet's artwork comes across more like political cartoons than true representations of the characters. Holmes's perpetually bored expression, horrid purple suits, and thin to the point of illness frame are distracting, but it is the droopy eyed, loose jowled and much older Watson who is truly misleading. Nicollet obviously gave in to the movies of the 30s to 50s which cast Watson as the much older idiot, rather than the apparently attractive gentleman presented in the original texts. I would have much preferred for Nicollet to depend on Sidney Paget for inspiration, or simply to see Paget's originals presented. The book draws so much on real history and historic allusion that it's a shame to so misrepresent the main characters in the original illustrations.
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Arthur Conan Doyle's classic Sherlock Holmes adventure of a spectral hound from hell gets a fresh treatment in this Viking book, part of their 'Whole Story' series.
In an endeavor to make 'Hound of the Baskervilles' accessible to new readers, Viking has taken the original text and supplemented it with fresh illustrations of Holmes, Watson, Henry Baskerville and action scenes from the novel along with period and contemporary photos and diagrams. The photos and diagrams - which depict London scenes, English landscapes, etc. - come with extended captions. The illustrations of Holmes, et al. feature an appropriate quote from the text. Much of the illustrative material is in color. The overall product is quite an attractive, appealing piece.
This Viking edition, copyrighted 2004, was originally published in France in 2002. The book's illustrator, Nicollet by name, certainly created a distinctive look for Holmes and Watson, which is where I have a problem. In several illustrations Nicollet's Holmes is an impossibly thin caricature of a person, a study in awkwardness. Watson, in turn, comes across as a dullard in several Nicollet illustrations.
In any case, this is an interesting, visually appealing reimagining of Doyle's novel. It should appeal to young and old readers alike!
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