Oxford Bookworms Library: The Hound of the Baskervilles: Level 4: 1400-Word Vocabulary (Oxford Bookworms Library, Crime & Mystery) New Edition by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan published by Oxford University Press, USA

by Arthur Conan Doyle

Unknown Binding

About the author

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle was a Scottish writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for A Study in Scarlet, the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Holmes and Dr. Watson. The Sherlock Holmes stories are milestones in the field of crime fiction.

Doyle was a prolific writer. In addition to the Holmes stories, his works include fantasy and science fiction stories about Professor Challenger, and humorous stories about the Napoleonic soldier Brigadier Gerard, as well as plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. One of Doyle's early short stories, "J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement" (1884), helped to popularise the mystery of the brigantine Mary Celeste, found drifting at sea with no crew member aboard.

Reviews

[Martha (Marty)]

Read this because my students have been asked to read it. I don't think it hits the same as the original edition. The language is suitable for the level 4 reader, but it was not as entertaining as I remember the story being. Maybe I'm just old.
I did enjoy the illustrations included throughout this edition though.