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“Perhaps when a man has special knowledge and special powers like my own, it rather encourages him to seek a complex explanation when a simpler one is at hand.” This quote by Sherlock Holmes, the most famous fictional character of A.C. Doyle, describes not only Sherlock Holmes but also his creator. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an interesting man and his writing were influenced by many things. Specifically, the novel The Hound of the Baskervilles, was influenced by Doyle?s family and his life experiences. Doyle?s aristocratic background and upbringing influences his writing by agreeing very much with England?s nobleman and commoner status quo. The family of A.C. Doyle greatly influenced his novel The Hound of the Baskervilles. By having noble and even royal blood flowing through his veins, Doyle was better able to write about the noble Baskerville family. The aristocrats in the story were also portrayed as the ?good? chracters which shows the reader Doyle?s opinion of the noblemen. Doyle knew about nobility and he was able to pass this personal quality onto his characters. The Baskerville family was a very respected one, especially after Sir Charles took control over Baskerville Hall. “Though Sir Charles resided at Baskerville Hall for a comparatively short period, his amiability of character and extreme generosity had won the affection and respect of all who had been brought into contact with him.” (Doyle 19) The noble Baskerville family is very likely a reflection of what Doyle thought, or knew, about his own family. Another thing that is evident in the book is Arthur Conan Doyle’s chivalrous side. The characters of Sir Henry Baskerville and Sir Charles Baskerville continually show that they are honorable men. By providing for his neighbors and friends, Sir Charles showed that he was willing to put others first and that he genuinely cared for others. The help given to Ms. Laura Lyons also shows Charles’s chivalrous side. He helped her financially after she was forced to leave her home by her father and she requested help from Charles a second time, knowing his generosity. Sir Henry continued on in the same tradition and started to refurbish the Baskerville Manor and give help to the people who needed it most. Sir Henry was also able to show his chivalrous side in another way. It was in his pursuit of Miss Stapleton that he showed his romantic side. The chivalrous and romantic Baskervilles were a mirror image of Doyle. He was raised by his mother to be chivalrous and he truly listened to what his mother said. By passing these characteristics onto his fictional characters, Doyle was able to write about something he believed in. Arthur Conan Doyle’s life experiences also influenced his novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. As a child enrolled in boarding school, Doyle excelled in many things. Particularly, Doyle was very athletic and he did very well at many sports. The character of Sherlock Holmes demonstrates the same athletic ability as Doyle did in his boyhood years. Watson says about Holmes, “Never have I seen a man run as Holmes ran that night.” (Doyle 158) More importantly though, Doyle’s time in medical school at the University of Edinburgh and the time he spent as a doctor greatly influence this novel. The character of Dr. Mortimer shows a great deal of knowledge about medicine. He was the one who took care of Sire Charles until the last minute and diagnosed his problems. Also, Dr. Mortimer was a specialist in skulls. Throughout the novel, Mortimer shows off his knowledge at various times. The deduction skills given to Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson are also derived from the medical knowledge of Arthur Doyle. Holmes and Watson can figure out just about anything from a few clues. They are able to reach conclusions from examining objects and speaking with people. By examining the walking stick of Dr. Mortimer, Holmes was able to figure out where he worked, what kind of dog he owned, and why he left his job. Watson was even able to figure out that Barrymore was holding the candlelight at the window each night as a signal. The baronet and Watson found out the truth about the Barrymore’s family secret from this observation. One of the most important things that Holmes figured out in this novel was the Miss Stapleton was not the sister of Stapleton. Holmes figured this out from a simple comment Stapleton made about his past. Holmes figures out that Stapleton, at one time, was a schoolmaster. It turned out that Stapleton and his wife, Miss Stapleton, decided to flee the town after some bad circumstances occurred in which Mr. Stapleton was a part of. The couple ended up in Devonshire and acted there as sister and brother. This simple piece of information led Holmes to the conclusion of the mystery at the Baskerville Manor. Doyle’s characters, especially Holmes, really reflect his knowledge of science and medicine. Doyle was able to pass on his science of deduction skills to Holmes and Watson and they came in very handy throughout the book even shaping the plot.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s personality had two main sectors, which were showed in his writings. These sectors were the hardheaded man of science, and the romantic adventurer. These two personality traits not only shape the characters in the books but they also shape the plot of the books themselves. The novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles, is a good example of how these two characteristics of Doyle influence his writings.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 1963.

Benstock, Bernard. “Arthur Conan Doyle”. British Writers. Ed. George Stade. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1992 2:159-176

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The Hound of the Baskervilles

Chapter 1 � Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who was usually very late in the mornings, save upon those not infrequent occasions when he was up all night, was seated at the breakfast table. I stood upon the hearth-rug and picked up the stick which our visitor had left behind him the night before. It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a "Penang lawyer." Just under the head was a broad silver band nearly an inch across. "To James Mortimer, M.R.C.S., from his friends of the C.C.H.," was engraved upon it, with the date "1884." It was just such a stick as the old-fashioned family practitioner used to carry � dignified, solid, and reassuring.

"Well, Watson, what do you make of it?"

Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.

"How did you know what I was doing? I believe you have eyes in the back of your head."

"I have, at least, a well-polished, silver-plated coffee-pot in front of me," said he. "But, tell me, Watson, what do you make of our visitor's stick? Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance. Let me hear you reconstruct the man by an examination of it."

"I think," said I, following as far as I could the methods of my companion, "that Dr. Mortimer is a successful, elderly medical man, well-esteemed since those who know him give him this mark of their appreciation."

"Good!" said Holmes. "Excellent!"

"I think also that the probability is in favour of his being a country practitioner who does a great deal of his visiting on foot."

"Because this stick, though originally a very handsome one has been so knocked about that I can hardly imagine a town practitioner carrying it. The thick-iron ferrule is worn down, so it is evident that he has done a great amount of walking with it."

"Perfectly sound!" said Holmes.

"And then again, there is the 'friends of the C.C.H.' I should guess that to be the Something Hunt, the local hunt to whose members he has possibly given some surgical assistance, and which has made him a small presentation in return."

"Really, Watson, you excel yourself," said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette. "I am bound to say that in all the accounts which you have been so good as to give of my own small achievements you have habitually underrated your own abilities. It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light. Some people without possessing genius have a remarkable power of stimulating it. I confess, my dear fellow, that I am very much in your debt."

He had never said as much before, and I must admit that his words gave me keen pleasure, for I had often been piqued by his indifference to my admiration and to the attempts which I had made to give publicity to his methods. I was proud, too, to think that I had so far mastered his system as to apply it in a way which earned his approval. He now took the stick from my hands and examined it for a few minutes with his naked eyes. Then with an expression of interest he laid down his cigarette, and carrying the cane to the window, he looked over it again with a convex lens.

"Interesting, though elementary," said he as he returned to his favourite corner of the settee. "There are certainly one or two indications upon the stick. It gives us the basis for several deductions."

"Has anything escaped me?" I asked with some self-importance. "I trust that there is nothing of consequence which I have overlooked?"

"I am afraid, my dear Watson, that most of your conclusions were erroneous. When I said that you stimulated me I meant, to be frank, that in noting your fallacies I was occasionally guided towards the truth. Not that you are entirely wrong in this instance. The man is certainly a country practitioner. And he walks a good deal."

"Then I was right."

"But that was all."

"No, no, my dear Watson, not all � by no means all. I would suggest, for example, that a presentation to a doctor is more likely to come from a hospital than from a hunt, and that when the initials 'C.C.' are placed before that hospital the words 'Charing Cross' very naturally suggest themselves."

"You may be right."

"The probability lies in that direction. And if we take this as a working hypothesis we have a fresh basis from which to start our construction of this unknown visitor."

"Well, then, supposing that 'C.C.H.' does stand for 'Charing Cross Hospital,' what further inferences may we draw?"

"Do none suggest themselves? You know my methods. Apply them!"

"I can only think of the obvious conclusion that the man has practised in town before going to the country."

"I think that we might venture a little farther than this. Look at it in this light. On what occasion would it be most probable that such a presentation would be made? When would his friends unite to give him a pledge of their good will? Obviously at the moment when Dr. Mortimer withdrew from the service of the hospital in order to start in practice for himself. We know there has been a presentation. We believe there has been a change from a town hospital to a country practice. Is it, then, stretching our inference too far to say that the presentation was on the occasion of the change?"

"It certainly seems probable."

"Now, you will observe that he could not have been on the staff of ohe hospital, since only a man well-established in a London practice could hold such a position, and such a one would not drift into the country. What was he, then? If he was in the hospital and yet not on the staff he could only have been a house-surpeon or a house-physician � little more than a senior student. And he left five years ago � the date is on the stick. So your grave, middle-aged family practitioner vanishes into thin air, my dear Watson, and there emerges a young fellow under thirty, amiable, unambitious, absent-minded, and the possessor of a favourite dog, which I should describe roughly as being larger than a terrier and smaller than a mastiff."

I laughed incredulously as Sherlock Holmes leaned back in his settee and blew little wavering rings of smoke up to the ceiling.

"As to the latter part, I have no means of checking you," said I, "but at least it is not difficult to find out a few particulars about the man's age and professional career." From my small medical shelf I took down the Medical Directory and turned up the name. There were several Mortimers, but only one who could be our visitor. I read his record aloud.

"Mortimer, James, M.R.C.S., 1882, Grimpen, Dartmoor, Devon. House-surgeon, from 1882 to 1884, at Charing Cross Hospital. Winner of the Jackson prize for Comparative Pathology, with essay entitled 'Is Disease a Reversion?' Corresponding member of the Swedish Pathological Society. Author of 'Some Freaks of Atavism' (Lancet 1882). 'Do We Progress?' (Journal of Psychology, March, 1883). Medical Officer for the parishes of Grimpen, Thorsley, and High Barrow."

"No mention of that local hunt, Watson," said Holmes with a mischievous smile, "but a country doctor, as you very astutely observed. I think that I am fairly justified in my inferences. As to the adjectives, I said, if I remember right, amiable, unambitious, and absent-minded. It is my experience that it is only an amiable man in this world who receives testimonials, only an unambitious one who abandons a London career for the country, and only an absent-minded one who leaves his stick and not his visiting-card after waiting an hour in your room."

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Chapter 1. Mr. Sherlock Holmes

Глава I. Мистер Шерлок Холмс

Мистер Шерлок Холмс, имевший обыкновение вставать довольно поздно, если не считать тех нередких случаев, когда ему вовсе не приходилось ложиться, сидел за столом и завтракал. Я стоял на коврике у камина и вертел в руках палку, забытую нашим вчерашним посетителем, хорошую толстую палку с набалдашником — из тех, что именуются "Пинангским юристом". Чуть ниже набалдашника было врезано серебряное кольцо шириной около дюйма. На кольце было начертано: "Джеймсу Мортимеру, Ч. К. X. О., от его друзей по ЧКЛ" и дата: "1884". Палка была из тех, с которыми ходили почтенные домашние врачи — солидная, увесистая, надежная.

— Чего нет, того нет, зато передо мной стоит начищенный до блеска серебряный кофейник, — ответил он. — Нет, в самом деле, Уотсон, что вы скажете о палке нашего посетителя? Мы с вами прозевали его и не знаем, зачем он приходил. А раз уж нам так не повезло, придется обратить особое внимание на этот случайный сувенир. Обследуйте палку и попробуйте воссоздать по ней образ ее владельца, а я вас послушаю.

— По-моему, — начал я, стараясь по мере сил следовать методу моего приятеля, — этот доктор Мортимер — преуспевающий медик средних лет, к тому же всеми уважаемый, поскольку друзья наделяют его такими знаками внимания.

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Доктор Мортимер – врач, близкий друг сэра Чарльза и сэра Генри.

Джон Бэрримор – дворецкий Баскервилей, честный, замкнутый мужчина.

Элиза Бэрримор – супруга дворецкого, простая, прямодушная женщина средних лет.

Сэлден – беглый каторжник, младший брат Элизы.

Мисс Степлтон – жена Джека Степлтона, которую он выдавал за сестру в корыстных целях.

Мистер Френкленд – старик, все время наблюдавший за округой в подзорную трубу.

Лаура Лайонс – молодая женщина, невольная помощница Степлтона в его грязном деле.

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Глава 1. Мистер Шерлок Холмс

Глава 2. Проклятие рода Баскервилей

Доктор Мортимер рассказал, что сэр Чарльз был найден мертвым неподалеку от болот, а рядом с телом были обнаружены следы огромного пса.

Глава 3. Задача

Глава 4. Сэр Генри Баскервиль

Глав 5. Три оборванные нити

Глава 6. Баскервиль-Холл

Глава 7. Стэплтоны из Меррипит-хаус

Доктор Ватсон пытался все время находиться возле сэра Генри, но вскоре это стало делать все труднее – молодой человек влюбился в прекрасную мисс Степлтон, которую ревностно уберегал от ухаживаний ее брат.

Глава 8. Первый отчет доктора Ватсона

Глава 9. Второй отчет доктора Уотсона

Доктор Ватсон написал другу, как стал свидетелем неприятной сцены – сэр Генри сделал предложение мисс Степлтон, которая молила его скорее покинуть Баскервиль-холл, а ее брат набросился на молодого Баскервиля и оскорбил его.

Глава 10. Отрывки из дневника доктора Уотсона

Глава 11. Человек на гранитном столбе

Глава 12. Смерть на болотах

Глава 13. Сети расставлены

Рассматривая старинные портреты династии Баскервилей, Холмс заметил поразительное сходство беспутного Гуго с мистером Степлтоном. Так сыщику стали понятны мотивы убийства сэра Чарльза, и в голове его созрел план по поимке преступника.

Глава 14. Собака Баскервилей

Глава 15. Взгляд назад

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