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Not exactly horror, but what about The Haunted Hotel by Wilkie Collins or The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle? Both of those ought to be available on the internet. ... Club asked Holmes and Watson to meet him at his Study in Scarlet. He asked them to go to The Valley of Fear to catch The Hound of the Baskervilles.
74. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. 1001. Classic whodunit ala Sherlock Holmes. Actually a reread but the first time around was 25 years ago. I requested Hound of the Baskervilles for my son's summer reading via BookMooch which came in today. Although I'm pretty sure I read this back in school I've put it on my tbr list as well because it sounds interesting. The Hound of the Baskervilles, but of course :)
"I was only testing you, and you ring true every time." Oooo....you're making my point! The title doesn't come from The Hound of the Baskervilles. It comes from a short story called "Silver Blaze". The pertinent portion goes like this:
Scotland Yard detective: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Holme ... My son's required summer reading is The Hound of the Baskervilles which is apparently the required reading of many because out of 30+ copies throughout my local library system, I can't find a single one that isn't already checked out with a hold on it. So, I've requested a copy off of BookMooch ... ... break, and I hope that this list will help me in that.
Well, here comes the 20th/21st century:
52. Buddenbrooks
53. The Hound of the Baskervilles
54. Heart of Darkness
55. Young Törless
56. The Secret Agent
57. The Old Wives’ Tale
58. Kokoro
59. The Great Gatsby
60. ... Finally got my Penguin Classic in the mail this weekend. I was picked for The Hound of the Baskervilles. I've read it before but I certainly don't mind revisiting it. ... books" from my parents. Since I was starting homeschool that year, they obliged, and my mother bought me Silas Marner, Hound of the Baskervilles, The Jungle Book,The Pearl, and a bunch of others. That's where my love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle began. Also I was fascinated by the words in ... ... Continental Op, actually a collection of short stories by Dashiell Hammett
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Doyle
The Black Goatee by Constance & Gwenyth Little, an absolutely delightful book
Whoops, forgot Jitterbug by Loren D ... ... ways.
48F.) The Sign of the Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Pretty good, although ran on a bit long.
49F.) The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The best of the bunch. I enjoyed this one immensely; the writing, the mystery, and the characters were all up to ... ... to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
I am eight years old.
Jedi are in their heaven;
all's right with the world.
78. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
His sleeves marked by blood,
Holmes throws open the windows
and snuffs out grim myths. ... Towers, Anthony Trollope
Black Orchids, Rex Stout
Washington Square, Henry James
The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
Honorable mentions go to Mary Poppins, Empires ... ... Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Green for Danger by Christianna Brand
The Innocence of Father Brown by G.K. Chesterton
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Death in a White Tie by Ngaio Marsh
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (now I own 2)
And today I went to Target and picked up some more:
... ... u>
A: Barchester Towers, Anthony Trollope *read*
M: Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
J: The Hound of the Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle *read*
J: The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James
A: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
S: A R ... Edwardian Novels
1. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Arthur Conan Doyle *read*
2. The Wings of the Dove (1902), Henry James
3. The Ambassadors (1903), Henry James
4. The Golden Bowl (1904), Henry James
5. The House of Mirth ... I have read all of Sherlock Holmes too so I am sure that I have read Hound of the Baskervilles 24 (and it's already April 19th? Woe!) is Arthur Conan 's The Hound of the Baskervilles, a gothic favorite of many, and a book I thought I had read before but I apparently haven't. Holmes is at his most stereotypical (and I mean that in a good way), and lots of fun to be reading for traces of ... ... certainly tried to rid himself of Sherlock Holmes (killing him in "The Final Problem" only to bring him back in the Hound of the Baskervilles later as a "prequel-ish" case and then officially again in a short story due to protests), this is a series.
Heck, they started as a series ... recommend reading at least a few of the short stories before getting too far into them. There's one set in the same area as The Hound of the Baskervilles, which you will appreciate much more if you've read Doyle's book!
DianeS
owned by Wilma, Angel, and Simba
rented out by Fleur, Gizmo, Hedw ... ... recommend reading at least a few of the short stories before getting too far into them. There's one set in the same area as The Hound of the Baskervilles, which you will appreciate much more if you've read Doyle's book!
DianeS
owned by Wilma, Angel, and Simba
rented out by Fleur, Gizmo, Hedw ... ... so I'll cast my vote for L.A. Confidential. No one does it better than James Ellroy.
I'd also doff my cap to The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Name of the Rose. ... Orwell - 1984 (my year of birth...)
26. George Orwell - Dierenboerderij ( Animal Farm )
27. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
28. H.G. Wells - War of the worlds
29. Rudyard Kipling - Jungle Book
30. Hector Malot - Alleen op de wereld - (The adventures of Remi)
... Ah yes. Something always happens in the moors. Like that Hound of the Baskervilles.
Or to the Moors. (snuffle. Poor Othello) Ok, plays that I've read so far. Its actually been a bit since I picked up a non-play book, though I am half way through Hound of the Baskervilles.(many of these will not come up since plays are on the obscure side of book reading)
Belles by Mark Dunn
Brilliant Traces by Cindy Lou Johnson
Au ... ... Baby Ira Levin
The Boys from Brazil Ira Levin
The Color Purple Alice Walker
Little Big Man Thomas Berger
The Hound of the Baskervilles Arthur Conan Doyle
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
... Anne McCaffrey
B. 1001 Books List
1. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes **
2. Atonement by Ian McEwan *
3. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle
4. Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut
5. Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
6. The Once and Future King ... 1001 Books to Read Before You Die:
1-2 the Gormenghast Novels
3. the Handmaid's Tale
4. the Hound of the Baskervilles
5. Out of Africa
6. the Poisonwood Bible
7. Gulliver's Travels
8. the Water-Babies When adding books manually via Add Books, the value for the new box Number of Copies is 0 zero.
Wouldn't it be a lot more logical and convenient when the Default value would be 1 one? I've just read The Hound of the Baskervilles. ... Fields and Zasu Pitts in 1934.
I have a copy of The Blue Flower by Henry van Dyke but have not read it. Have read Hound of the Baskervilles more than once and, yes, Jeremy Brett WAS Sherlock Homes! :) ... Hough 6 copies
5. Audrey, Mary Johnston 4 copies
6. The Right of Way, Gilbert Parker 21 copies
7. The Hound of the Baskervilles, A. Conan Doyle 1,693 copies
8. The Two Vanrevels, Booth Tarkington 6 copies
9. The Blue Flower, Henry van Dyke 21 ... ... favorites of all time!)
Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, and
The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood
I also read The Hound of the Baskervilles but I didn't care for it. ... a decade or so ago, starring the late Ian Richardson as Dr Bell. He also played Holmes itself in TV film versions of Hound and Sign of Four. ... to Wellville!! I should be reading for school...but I just can't made myself put it down!
mrsradcliff - I did enjoy Hounds of Baskerville...but I didn't. I think it was a situation where I have heard so many people say how fabulous it was, so maybe my expectations were too high? At ... #51 Did you enjoy The hound of the Baskervilles? I just finished it and thought it was one of the most beautifully descriptive detective novels I've ever read!
I am reading Organizational behaviour for my MSc course (!) which is interesting but really hard going.
I'm about to start The ... I finished Hound of the Baskervilles yesterday, and now I am about 5 chapters into The Road to Wellville by T.C. Boyle. #78 I really enjoyed the hound of the baskervilles and think I may go on and read the rest of the Shrlock Holmes novels. Last week I finished The Robber Bride and Agnes and the Hitman. This week it will be The Hound of the Baskervilles and Dealing with Dragons. ... g)
At the Mountains of Madness
The Trial (psychological horror)
The House on the Borderland (bizarro creepy-ness)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (sort of)
In a Glass Darkly
Maldoror
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Melmoth the Wanderer
The Monk
T ... Still reading the hound of the Baskervilles and waiting to start death on the Nile after returning from Egypt last month.
I also picked up terry brooks Just starting The hound of the baskervilles and never realised before how good Conan Doyle's fiction is! Just reading my first Sherlock Holmes book,
The hound of the Baskervilles
Only a few pages in but it's very gripping! #57 AllieW - I read The Hound of the Baskervilles earlier this year and had a similar reaction. I expected it to be rather dull, but it was really quite fun! ... it. Maybe it was because I was having difficulty concentrating, but it felt a little disjointed to me. Currently reading The Hound of the Baskervilles and enjoying it far more than I thought I would. (I last tackled a Sherlock Holmes book when I was about 11 and found it far too dry.) The ... ... can keep several books going at once! I can't do that, except occasionally when one is a re-read. Anyway, I just started The Hound of the Baskervilles for my library's mystery group. ... Anne McCaffrey and I'd say it's roughly comparable to what I've read of her stuff: moves along ok, not taxing. Next it's The Hound of the Baskervilles for my library group, then I think I'll look into McIntyre. I just peeked at her Web site and it has a cool design. And my library has ... ... to them myself yet though!)
Other short reads that I don't think other people have mentioned:
The Thirty Nine Steps
The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Little Prince
The Old Man and the Sea
The Stranger (not necessarily particularly easy to read though)
Perfume
The Wasp Factor ... 64. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (249 pages)
... something, it was more a "let's check what they stock" tour, I found a really cheap copy of the Penguin Classics edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles. $4, that's practically free, normally imported paperbacks go around $8-12.
I had that one, and others, when I grew up but when my sister and ... I am on the moors in England, with Sherlock Holmes, trying to determine the mystery of The Hound of the Baskervilles The surgeon's mate by Patrick O'Brian
The hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
The second mate of the Banshee by W. Townend (strictly speaking, third in command!)
Flashman's Lady by George MacDonald Fraser
The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude S ... ... mysteries by so many wonderful writers over the years. The Moving Toyshop for one, and Death On the Nile for another. The Hound of the Baskervilles and False Scent. Then there's The Silver Pigs and Crocodile on the Sandbank, The Concrete Blonde and Sunset Express. And, oh, can't ... ... genre is -- well -- just disturbing, I guess.
Kell -- The Robber Bride wasn't one of my favorite Atwoods. Loved Hound of the Baskervilles though.
joe -- I just didn't really care for Saturday -- Yawn.
Anyway, this will be 92/1001 for me. I'm still reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, but in the meantime, i've also read The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving. Finished The Hound of the Baskervilles yesterday whilst wandering around town, so I'll be listening to Vanity Fair by W M Thackeray next. I'll probably start it tomorrow on my way to work. I'm about to start reading The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood and also to start listening to an audio book of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Looking forward to both of them! Starting two new ones today - The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Audio Book) and The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood, which is rather chunky, so I'll probably be reading it for some time! ... Atwood is one I've had on my shelf for quite some time now and I'll be reading that one next. I'll also be listening to The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on audio book. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime by Mark Haddon
To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Lirael by Garth Nix (stars the Disreputable Dog)
Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome ... e:
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - A Study in Scarlet
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Hound of the Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Sign of Four
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
... ... by Fernando Pessoa (part of it)
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins (a series of diary entries by different people)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (Watson's diaries in this and many other Sherlock Holmes adventures)
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn (not ... ... Lord of the Flies, 1984, Cry, the Beloved Country, The Little Prince, Their Eyes were Watching God, The Hobbit, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Crime and Punishment, The Scarlet Letter, Jane Eyre, Frankenstein, and Pride and Prejudice.
I'm currently reading Sense and Sens ... ... creator writes it? Doyle was the creator of Holmes not some mooning writer of fan fiction. sheesh!
On another note, Hound of the Baskervilles was the first Holmes story I ever read.
~~EK ... I can't have a book in my hands:
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis ... ... story by Doyle is part of the canon. (His non-Holmes work is not.) By the way, there are, in fact, no werewolves in The Hound of the Baskervilles nor anything of the (proven) supernatural.
I'd actuallyquestion whether Hound of the Baskervilles belongs on this list. Technically, its actually a werewolf, not a dog if I remember correctly. However, its been a while since I read it, so I could be mistaken. Hound of the Baskerviles?
Gets the thriller, mystery and historical checkboxes.
I've no idea how my timezone or the LT one relates to CST - how much longer have we got? ... Philosopher's Stone (1997) J.K. Rowling (who hasn't?)
Heart of Darkness (1902) Joseph Conrad (disappointing)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902) Arthur Conan Doyle
The House with the Green Shutters (1901) George Douglas Brown (like a Russian play)
King James Bible: A ... ... c
44. Polly and the Pirates by Ted Naifeh - library
45. The Eagle and the Raven by Pauline Gedge - keeper
46. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - electronic
47. Aesop's Fables by Aesop - electronic
48. The Outstretched Shadow by Mercedes Lackey ... ... of the Library sale and came back with this haul (plus a couple for the kids)
Paperbacks ($.25) Dover Thrift Editions
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Death in Venice by Thomas Mann
Dubliners by James Joyce
The Awakening by Kate Chopin
The Call ... ... definately. Though it's hard to stick with one story since most of the short stories are excellent; but a as a novel Hound of the Baskervilles is very good and a cornerstone of the mystery genre I think.
2) Dorothy L. Sayers' Lord Peter mysteries. Sayers' stories brought a new, ... ... by Bill Clinton over breakfast, otherwise it's Very Good, Jeeves! by P.G. Wodehouse and I'll probably move on to The Hound of the Baskervilles when I'm finished with that. ... OK with him going to Scotland or the Midlands. Was not too unhappy with Holmes going to the Midlands or Dartmoor, though Hound of the Baskervilles is clearly inferior to the other stories. ... his loyalty, his bravery, his acknowledgment of his limitations - even when those are used by Holmes to his own advantage - Hound of the Baskervilles comes to mind. To some extent he's supposed to represent the every-Englishman, and that I can respect.
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