The Hound of the Baskervilles - Couverture souple

Conan Doyle, Arthur

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141199172 ISBN 13 : 9780141199177

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2012

Synopsis

Four of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's greatest stories engagingly adapted into graphic novels by three of the greatest illustrators of our time. Enjoy Sir Enjoy Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World", "The Hound of the Baskervilles", "The Sign of Four" and "Sir Nigel" in these black and white comic strip adaptations from the 1960s. Dinosaurs, Sherlock Holmes and knights in armour add up to a feast of comic strip glory. The definitive adventure strip version of The Sign of Four, The lurking menace of the Hound of the Baskervilles, the rousing action-packed pageantry of Sir Nigel and the visual impact of savage ape-men battling ferocious carnivorous dinosaurs and swooping pterodactyls in the Lost World.

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

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Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"

The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination.

The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0141199172
• ISBN 13: 9780141199177
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 208