By A. Conan Doyle
THE HOUND OF THE
BASKERVILLES
A Sherlock Holmes Novel
Illustrated by Sidney Paget
The London Chronicle, in a review headed
“THE ZENITH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES,”
says:
“We should like to pay Dr. Doyle the highest compliment at our command. It is not simply that this book is superior in originality and construction to the earlier adventures of the great detective. Dr. Doyle has provided a criminal who, as Mr. Holmes admits, is indeed a foeman worthy of his steel.[A] Hitherto he has found it comparatively easy to unmask his antagonists. But in the present case he finds himself checkmated again and again. There is pitted against him a skill nearly equal to his own, and he wins the game almost by a hair.”
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By George Douglas
THE HOUSE WITH THE
GREEN SHUTTERS
The first novel of a new master. The work has gained wide-spread recognition on both sides of the water. Three of the most conservative and authoritative publications in England include it among the first twelve of the year. In this country Harper’s Weekly gives it as one of the two most interesting novels of the year.
The critics differ as to with what other master George Douglas should be compared:
The London Times says: “Worthy of the hand that drew ‘Weir of Hermiston,’” and that “Balzac and Flaubert, had they been Scotch, would have written such a book.”
The Spectator: “His masters are Zola and Balzac, but there are few traces of the novice and none of the imitator.”
Vanity Fair: “It moves to its end with all the terrible unity of an Æschylean tragedy.”
Harper’s Weekly: “If Thomas Hardy had written of Scotland, instead of Wessex, it would have been something like ‘The House with the Green Shutters’.... If any man is his (Douglas’) master it is Thomas Hardy.”
Hardy, Stevenson, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, and Æschylus.
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Footnote:
[A] “I tell you, Watson, this time we have a foeman who is worthy of our steel.”—Sherlock Holmes.
Transcriber’s Notes:
1. Minor changes have been made to correct typesetters’ errors; otherwise, every effort has been made to remain true to the author’s words and intent.
2. Placement of illustrations and page numbers have been rearranged slightly, to accommodate the uninterrupted flow of the book.