巴斯克维尔的猎犬（牛津世界经典系列） The Hound of the Baskervilles
基本信息
Series:Oxford World's Classics
Format:Paperback / softback 224 pages
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
Edition:2 Revised edition
ISBN:9780198835226
Published:9 Mar 2023
Weight:168g
Dimensions:200 x 129 x 17 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
Country of Origin:GB
Tariff Codes:49019900
书籍简介
《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》是柯南道得意的长篇著作之一，可以说是福尔摩斯探案集的代表作。本书主要讲的是詹姆斯·摩梯末医生带给了歇洛克·福尔摩斯一扎神秘的手稿，这扎手稿来自于查尔兹·巴斯克维尔爵士，三个月前他忽遭惨死。手稿中记载了一百多年前巴斯克维尔家族的祖先雨果·巴斯克维尔为非作歹，导致自己命丧于传说中可怕的巴斯克维尔猎犬口中。从那以后，巴斯克维尔家族就笼罩在祖先所犯下罪行的阴影下，家族族长的继承人都相继以怪诞而恐怖的方式被害。起初福尔摩斯并没有被摩梯末医生讲述的故事所吸引，他认为这只是个有趣的传说。但在摩梯末医生向福尔摩斯讲述查尔兹爵士离奇死亡的疑点后，福尔摩斯决定立刻插手此案。因为这还关系到庄园下一个继承人亨利·巴斯克维尔爵士的生命安全。
《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》这篇小说讲述的故事以离奇和经典著称。柯南·道尔以传说的方式引出了这个故事，把人物巧妙地串联起来，道出令读者意想不到的凶手。在案件发生的过程中，作者并没有用繁琐的叙事讲述，而是以华生医生回忆录和日记的形式清楚地记录了当时发生的情况和每个人的情绪变化。就当华生为了寻找问题答案将要遇到危险时，福尔摩斯从天而降。柯南·道尔的小说都有一个普遍的特点：主人公福尔摩斯总会在不同的时间，不同的地点，以不同的方式出人意料地出现。
这篇小说充分地展示了继承人们为了争夺遗产而相互残杀的恶行，也表明了作者极力反对这种做法的态度。
'Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!'The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville brings Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson to Dartmoor in the most famous of all of Arthur Conan Doyle's books. Is Sir Charles the latest victim of the ancestral Curse of the Baskervilles, which summons a demonic hound to stalk the moor and exact vengeance for a past misdeed, or is there a more modern, more prosaic explanation for the sudden death? In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the modern, rational world, and the ancient, supernatural worldcollide in the novel which brought Sherlock Holmes back from the dead. This new edition of Conan Doyle's classic mystery is part of a series of new editions of the Sherlock Holmes stories published in Oxford World's Classics.
Darryl Jones's Introduction explores the competing worlds of the supernatural and the scientific in the novel and in Arthur Conan Doyle's life, the novel's colonial background and origins, and the role of landscape, folklore, and folk horror in the novel.
作者简介
柯南?道尔出生于1859年，父母为查尔斯及玛丽?道尔。在9岁那年，他被送入史东尼赫斯天主教修会私立小学就读，但却在1875年离校时对天主教产生厌恶的情绪，转成为一名不可知论者。1876年至1881年间他在爱丁堡大学学习医学，毕业后作为一名随船医生前往西非海岸，1882年回国后在普利茅斯开业行医。不过他行医并不太顺利，在此期间道尔开始写作。在搬到朴茨茅斯的南海城（Southsea）后，他才开始花更多的时间在写作上。道尔发表于1887年的《比顿圣诞年刊》（Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887）的侦探小说《血字的研究》（A Study in Scarlet），该部小说的主角就是之后名声大躁的歇洛克?福尔摩斯。道尔本人也曾卷入两桩有趣的案件。一次是在1906年，一名英印混血律师被指控发送恐吓信以及虐待动物。虽然这名律师被逮捕后，依然有动物被虐待，警方却一口咬定这名律师有罪。值得注意的是在这次案件后，1907年英国建立了刑事上诉法庭。因此可以说道尔不但帮助了这名律师，还间接协助建立了一套冤案申诉机制。另一次则是在1908年，一名经营赌场的德国籍犹太人被控用棒子袭击一名82岁的老妇人。 到晚年时道尔开始相信唯灵论，甚至还曾以此为主题写过好几部小说，有人认为这和他的儿子在一战中丧生有关。柯南?道尔在1930年7月7日去世。
Conan Doyle was born in 1859 to Charles and Mary Doyle. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University between 1876 and 1881, graduating as a ship's surgeon to the West African coast, before returning in 1882 to practise in Plymouth. His medical practice did not go too well, however, and during this time Doyle began to write. It was only after moving to Southsea in Portsmouth that he began to spend more time on his writing. Doyle's first major work was the detective novel A Study in Scarlet, published in 1887 in Beeton's Christmas Annual for 1887, which featured Sherlock Holmes of subsequent fame. Doyle himself was involved in two interesting cases. Once, in 1906, an Anglo-Indian lawyer was accused of sending threatening letters and of animal cruelty. Although the lawyer was arrested and animals were still being abused, the police flatly found the lawyer guilty. It is worth noting that after this case, the Court of Criminal Appeal was established in England in 1907. It is therefore possible that Doyle not only helped the lawyer but also indirectly helped to establish a mechanism for redress of grievances. Another time, in 1908, a German Jew who ran a casino was accused of attacking an 82-year-old woman with a stick. In his later years Doyle came to believe in animism and even wrote several novels on the subject, which some believe had something to do with the death of his son in World War I. Conan Doyle died on 7 July 1930.
