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When Sir Charles Baskerville is found suspiciously dead, his friend, Dr. James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes to look into the death. While the cause of death is determined to be a heart attack, Mortimer suspects foul play and fears that Sir Charles’s nephew and sole heir, Sir Henry Baskerville, may be in danger next. At the center of the investigation is the curse of the Baskervilles, which dates back to the time of the English Civil War. Supposedly the family’s ancestor, Hugo Baskerville, sold his soul to the devil, and the family has been haunted by a large spectral hound ever since. Because Sir Charles was found with a look of horror on his face when he died, appeared to be running away from something, and large paw prints had been found near his body, there is reason to believe that the “Hound” may have returned. The details of the case spark the interest of Sherlock and he agrees to take up the case. “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” is the third of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes novels and is widely regarded as one of his best. This edition includes a biographical afterword.

В книгу вошла одна из самых известных детективных историй Артура Конана Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе – «Собака Баскервилей» (The Hound of the Baskervilles). Предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень Intermediate). Книга также содержит упражнения, комментарии и словарь.

The story focuses around the narrator and his friend St. John, who have a deranged interest in robbing graves. They constantly defile crypts and often keep souvenirs of their nocturnal expeditions. Since they reside in the same house, they have the opportunity to set up a sort of morbid museum in their basement. Using the objects they collect from the various graves they have robbed, they organize the private exhibition. The collection consists of headstones, preserved bodies, skulls and several heads in different phases of decomposition. It also included statues, frightful paintings and a locked portfolio, bound in tanned human skin.

В сборник вошли сокращенные и упрощенные тексты наиболее популярных рассказов американского писателя О. Генри, а также одна из самых знаменитых повестей А. К. Дойла о Шерлоке Холмсе «Собака Баскервилей». Тексты сопровождаются комментариями, упражнениями, а также небольшими словариками, облегчающими чтение. Книга предназначается для продолжающих изучать английский язык (уровень 3 – Intermediate).

Holmes and Watson are faced with their most terrifying case yet. The legend of the devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville families home warns the descendants of that ancient clan never to venture out in those dark hours when the power of evil is exalted. Now, the most recent Baskerville, Sir Charles, is dead and the footprints of a giant hound have been found near his body. Will the new heir meet the same fate?

В этом издании неадаптированный текст знаменитой повести смогут читать даже те, кто пока не очень хорошо знает английский. К каждой странице текста дается словарь самых нужных слов и краткие грамматические комментарии. С их помощью читатели легко уследят за сюжетом и сами не заметят, как освоят немало новых слов и устойчивых выражений, научатся увереннее употреблять грамматические конструкции и без проблем доберутся до разгадки страшного преступления. Книга предназначена для тех, кто изучает английский язык на продолжающем уровне и стремится к его совершенствованию.