The Hound of the Baskervilles (Annotated): The Study Guide Edition

Complete text & integrated study guide

By: Arthur Doyle, Francis Gilbert

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

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Are you a student struggling to understand Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel The Hound of the Baskervilles?

Or are you an educator wanting ready-made exercises and guidance to help you teach this difficult text? Do your students need support to understand the language properly and work independently on the book?

This edition of Sherlock Holmes’s most famous case contains a comprehensive study guide to the work as well as extensive questions for students to work on in order to help their understanding. Aimed specifically at pupils reading the book as an exam text, there is a detailed introduction which outlines how to understand the difficult language, how to write top grade essays, and how to discuss the contexts of the novel. The complete text is punctuated by useful comments and engaging tasks on every chapter with answers provided at the back. The e-book is full of active weblinks which are usefully structured so that you can make sense of the wealth of resources that are on the internet.