THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE BORN MAY 22, 1859 IN EDINBURGH SCOTLAND STUDIED AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY BECAME A DOCTOR BECAME AN EYE SPECIALIST DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN SPIRITUALISM WROTE 60 STORIES/NOVELS ABOUT SHERLOCK HOLMES

SHERLOCK HOLMES “BORN” IN 1887 WHEN CONAN DOYLE WROTE HIS FIRST FULL-LENGTH DETECTIVE STORY A STUDY IN SCARLET TO SUPPLEMENT HIS INCOME KNOWN FOR HIS ACUTE POWERS OF OBSERVATION BELIEVED IN REASON ABOVE ALL SCIENTIFIC RATIONALISM WAS THE ORDER OF THE DAY

“…DOYLE BRILLIANTLY POPULARIZED THE CENTURY’S CONFIDENCE IN THE UNIFORM OPERATION OF SCIENTIFIC LAWS THAT ALLOWED THE TRAINED OBSERVER TO DEDUCE CAUSES FROM EFFECTS…” HOLMES WAS INTELLECTUALLY SUPERIOR TO THE ORDINARY MAN…ECCENTRIC BUT ELEGANT, BRILLIANT BUT FREQUENTLY BORED HE OFTEN INJECTED HIMSELF WITH DRUGS (THEN LEGAL) BECAUSE HE HATED TO HAVE A DULL EXISTENCE MANY PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT HE WAS A REAL PERSON

DR. WATSON DR. WATSON CREATED AS A FOIL TO HOLMES --ORDINARY PERSON HOLMES MUST EXPLAIN HIS REASONING TO WATSON HAD STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO CONAN DOYLE

GOOD-BYE HOLMES CONAN DOYLE ATTEMPTED TO KILL HOLMES SO HE COULD WRITE “SERIOUS” FICTION WROTE THE FINAL PROBLEM IN WHICH HOLMES’ NEMESIS SENDS HIM TO HIS DEATH PUBLIC OUTCRY INCLUDED NEWSPAPER OBITUARIES AND PEOPLE WEARING MOURNING GARB IN THE STREETS HOLMES WAS RESURRECTED IN THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES…NOVEL SET RETROSPECTIVELY

HOUND WAS WRITTEN IN 1920 BEST KNOWN HOLMES TALE INSPIRED TO WRITE THE STORY AFTER HEARING OF A LEGEND WHICH MAKES THIS NOVEL MORE GOTHIC IN NATURE CONAN DOYLE DIED IN 1930 SHERLOCK HOMES STILL RECEIVES MAIL EVERY DAY AT 221B BAKER STREET

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