The Hound Of The Baskervilles (shared by Academia Native, contains 15 English texts)
All chapters of the famous detective story by Arthur Conan Doyle
Arthur Conan Doyle,
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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,
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Arthur Conan Doyle,
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Upper Intermediate,
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Chapter 2. The Curse of the Baskervilles
“I have in my pocket a manuscript,” said Dr. James Mortimer.
“I observed it as you entered the room,” said Holmes.
“It is an old manuscript.”
“Early eigh
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Chapter 3. The Problem
I confess at these words a shudder passed through me. There was a thrill in the doctor’s voice which showed that he was himself deeply moved by that which he told us. Holmes
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Chapter 4 - Sir Henry Baskerville
Our breakfast table was cleared early, and Holmes waited in his dressing-gown for the promised interview. Our clients were punctual to their appointment, for the c
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Chapter 5 - Three Broken Threads
Sherlock Holmes had, in a very remarkable degree, the power of detaching his mind at will. For two hours the strange business in which we had been involved appeared
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Chapter 6 - Baskerville Hall
Sir Henry Baskerville and Dr. Mortimer were ready upon the appointed day, and we started as arranged for Devonshire. Mr. Sherlock Holmes drove with me to the station an
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Fiction,
Upper Beginner,
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Chapter 7 - The Stapletons of Merripit House
The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our
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Chapter 8 - First Report of Dr. Watson
From this point onward I will follow the course of events by transcribing my own letters to Mr. Sherlock Holmes which lie before me on the table. One page is
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Fiction,
Upper Beginner,
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Chapter 9 - The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. Watson]
Baskerville Hall, Oct. 15th.
MY DEAR HOLMES,
If I was compelled to leave you without much news during the early days of my missio
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Fiction,
Upper Beginner,
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Chapter 10 - Extract from the Diary of Dr. Watson
So far I have been able to quote from the reports which I have forwarded during these early days to Sherlock Holmes. Now, however, I have arrived a
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Chapter 11 - The Man on the Tor
The extract from my private diary which forms the last chapter has brought my narrative up to the eighteenth of October, a time when these strange events began to mo
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Fiction,
Upper Beginner,
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Chapter 12 - Death on the Moor
For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears. Then my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight of responsibility seemed in
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Fiction,
Upper Beginner,
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Chapter 13 - Fixing the Nets
“We’re at close grips at last,” said Holmes as we walked together across the moor. “What a nerve the fellow has! How he pulled himself together in the face of what must
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Chapter 14 - The Hound of the Baskervilles
One of Sherlock Holmes’s defects—if, indeed, one may call it a defect—was that he was exceedingly loath to communicate his full plans to any other person
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
Fiction,
Upper Intermediate,
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Chapter 15 - A Retrospection
It was the end of November, and Holmes and I sat, upon a raw and foggy night, on either side of a blazing fire in our sitting-room in Baker Street. Since the tragic ups
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